Jewish Psychiatrists make wanting to eat Healthy food a mental disorderhttp://www.naturalnews.com/048886_orthorexia_nervosa_healthy_food_brain_disorder.htmlClinicians are actively diagnosing patients with orthorexia nervosa, the extreme desire to eat pure food.
This is not a parody. It's actually happening.
According to the Guardian: Orthorexics commonly have rigid rules around eating. Refusing to touch sugar, salt, caffeine, alcohol, wheat, gluten, yeast, soy, corn and dairy foods is just the start of their diet restrictions. Any foods that have come into contact with pesticides, herbicides or contain artificial additives are also out.
Doctors and mental health professionals are very concerned, of course, as orthorexia nervosa seems to be 'on the rise.' Ursula Goldstein, chairperson of the British Dietetic Association mental health division, was quoted as follows:
I am definitely seeing significantly more orthorexics than just a few years ago. Other eating disorders focus on quantity of food but orthorexics can be overweight or look normal. They are solely concerned with the quality of the food they put in their bodies, refining and restricting their diets according to their personal understanding of which foods are truly pure.