[quote]Soulja874 wrote:
Same shit different day. You’re serious about your health ergo you must be loco.
God forbid you actually be dedicated to something other than Starbucks and Krispy Kremes.[/quote]
Leave Statrbucks out of this!!!
[quote]attydeb2005 wrote:
Who did the research is a good question. Or who “sponsored” it, even better. Whichever industry is already, or is likely to, take a hit if people go and get HEALTHY (oh noes!) sponsor this stuff. Pharmaceutical Co’s perhaps? Ever think that the reason some things aren’t “cured” is because they’d be out millions. The boom in diabetics (as young as age 13) has those bastards laughing all the wayyyyyyy to the bank. You want conspiracy theories? haha That’s my favorite right there. [/quote]
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And let’s not forget that scientists are human, too. Misery loves company. If you’re an insecure skinnyfat (or just plain fat) scientist, it’s gratifying to try to tear down those healthy-eating and iron-lifting gymrats, isn’t it? Especially once you realize that most of them are not the dumb meatheads you had always supposed them to be.
If people are properly ‘obsessing’ about their diet then they are probably scaring their friends and families because of all the fat and cholesterol in their actually healthy diets. 
[quote]B.L.U. Ninja wrote:
Yes, some people do take it too far and that’s probably what these “studies” are pertaining to.[/quote]Agreed.
The OP study mentions ‘obsession’ and ‘fixation’.
People here should focus on that part of the study, and not be distracted by what’s being obsessed/fixated on.
Obsession/fixation on anything, if taken to some extreme, is unhealthy – even if that obsession/fixation is on eating ‘healthy’.
From my understanding (based on the youtube video, so not extensive)
Orthorexia is to eating healthy what washing your hands after using the bathroom is to OCD where you wash your hands 100+ times a day.
…Everything I’m about to say has been said on this board before, so you might want to save fifteen seconds of your life and skip it…
It seems apparent to me that this isn’t a problem with eating healthy so much as it is a problem with obsession manifesting itself through self-imposed dietary restriction. Yes, the segment went into some new “health” food movements, but orthorexia doesn’t appear to be something anybody would support.
I put health in quotes because I am yet to meet a single vegetarian (and especially vegan) who is not overweight and has far more medical problems than my meat-eating friends. Is there a way to be vegetarian and healthy? Yes. Is it possible/easy/common to “mess up” as a vegetarian? Absolutely. All things in moderation.
Since the OP neglected to credit the actual author of this article, I had to dig it up for him.
This article was written by Amelia Hill, published in August 2009.
[quote]Rational Gaze wrote:
[quote]Standard Donkey wrote:
[quote]DixiesFinest wrote:
holy shit he has more videos
- YouTube [/quote]
looks like Ms. Winehouse has put on a few[/quote]
Bahahahahaha[/quote]
if that guy wasn’t referred to as a ‘he’, I would have been very confused as to why ‘she’ had a goatee
also, this whole thing seems like the classic case of stupid people getting attention for doing stupid things
[quote]attydeb2005 wrote:
Who did the research is a good question. Or who “sponsored” it, even better. Whichever industry is already, or is likely to, take a hit if people go and get HEALTHY (oh noes!) sponsor this stuff. Pharmaceutical Co’s perhaps? Ever think that the reason some things aren’t “cured” is because they’d be out millions. The boom in diabetics (as young as age 13) has those bastards laughing all the wayyyyyyy to the bank. You want conspiracy theories? haha That’s my favorite right there. [/quote]
This. I’ve believed for a while now that the government, as a rule of thumb, WANTS us sick. That keeps us relying on them, running to them for meds, healthcare, etc etc etc, and also keeps the medical industry booming. I wouldn’t be surprised in the least to find out that cures for many diseases and cancer are being withheld for just that reason.
[quote]CornSprint wrote:
From my understanding (based on the youtube video, so not extensive)
Orthorexia is to eating healthy what washing your hands after using the bathroom is to OCD where you wash your hands 100+ times a day.
…Everything I’m about to say has been said on this board before, so you might want to save fifteen seconds of your life and skip it…
It seems apparent to me that this isn’t a problem with eating healthy so much as it is a problem with obsession manifesting itself through self-imposed dietary restriction. Yes, the segment went into some new “health” food movements, but orthorexia doesn’t appear to be something anybody would support.
I put health in quotes because I am yet to meet a single vegetarian (and especially vegan) who is not overweight and has far more medical problems than my meat-eating friends. Is there a way to be vegetarian and healthy? Yes. Is it possible/easy/common to “mess up” as a vegetarian? Absolutely. All things in moderation.[/quote]
Um… it’s actually cooler to just say that people supporting this “diagnosis” are all fat slobs who are jealous of those of us who choose to eat healthy and look good than it is to offer a reasonable response.
kthxbye
Oh, and…
its just a bunch of tofu eating alfalpha humping weirdo hippies acting like crazy anorexics cause they are afraid to get cancer. Guess what fucktwat, im gonna spike your fucking garden with goddamn uranium and that fucking radiation will tumor you up sucka!!! Suck on that weirdo alphalfa garden humping tofu eating soy up the butt hippy.
[quote]Scrotus wrote:
its just a bunch of tofu eating alfalpha humping weirdo hippies acting like crazy anorexics cause they are afraid to get cancer. Guess what fucktwat, im gonna spike your fucking garden with goddamn uranium and that fucking radiation will tumor you up sucka!!! Suck on that weirdo alphalfa garden humping tofu eating soy up the butt hippy.[/quote]
A little cranky this morning?
[quote]danmarmu wrote:
[quote]Scrotus wrote:
its just a bunch of tofu eating alfalpha humping weirdo hippies acting like crazy anorexics cause they are afraid to get cancer. Guess what fucktwat, im gonna spike your fucking garden with goddamn uranium and that fucking radiation will tumor you up sucka!!! Suck on that weirdo alphalfa garden humping tofu eating soy up the butt hippy.[/quote]
A little cranky this morning?[/quote]
go on and tell us how you really feel
[quote]Scrotus wrote:
its just a bunch of tofu eating alfalpha humping weirdo hippies acting like crazy anorexics cause they are afraid to get cancer. Guess what fucktwat, im gonna spike your fucking garden with goddamn uranium and that fucking radiation will tumor you up sucka!!! Suck on that weirdo alphalfa garden humping tofu eating soy up the butt hippy.[/quote]
Use strontium-90 instead!!! It stays in your bones.
[quote]APB wrote:
[quote]Scrotus wrote:
its just a bunch of tofu eating alfalpha humping weirdo hippies acting like crazy anorexics cause they are afraid to get cancer. Guess what fucktwat, im gonna spike your fucking garden with goddamn uranium and that fucking radiation will tumor you up sucka!!! Suck on that weirdo alphalfa garden humping tofu eating soy up the butt hippy.[/quote]
Use strontium-90 instead!!! It stays in your bones.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strontium-90[/quote]
its not supposed to stay in their bones. its supposed to melt their skin and cover their tofu fucking alfalpha eating garden humping faggy up the soy butt hippy skin with blisters.
[quote]nrt wrote:
I’ve seen that video before somewhere - I believe they neglected to mention that their “orthorexic” subjects were also recovering anorexics.[/quote]
That’s not every surprising considering how skinny that guy was.
[quote]Petermus wrote:
I hate righteous eaters. I took a sustainable agriculture class and had to agree that organic foods are both sustainable and better but we also had a nutty veg head in our class. He once shared in his infinite wisdom that it was ok to eat fish because they would become a higher life form, in a discussion about hunting. I spear headed the pro hunting argument and crushed the opposition like a jagged stone falls upon a the head of a wounded wildebeest.
Making food a priority in your life is fine. Becoming a fanatic about it and finding it impossible to think of eating anything but foods that fit inside your rules is crazy. my tenth grade english teacher was a sad little vegetarian and once told us about her friend who would never eat anything that would kill a plant or animal and only ate things that fell naturally from a plant. Naturally he was a skinny little anorexic guy.[/quote]
I can only imagine all of the lovely nutrient deficiencies that your English teacher had.