Orthorexia nervosa ~ characterized by an extreme or excessive preoccupation with avoiding foods perceived to be unhealthful.
Raw-Food people are some of the oddest but the kid in this video and his cancer causing food phobia is on a new level.
I remember one time this came up before and there was a video series with a very annoying little guy that looked like Pauly Shore except more feminine and whiny.
Here he is:
[quote]Nards wrote:
Here he is:
That video was well thought out. I hope the fact that he’s a vegan doesn’t detract from his message.
I just looked at the video and that guy that is in the video and looks like Moby is not the one I meant…I saw the guy that is in the preview pic holding the apple and THAT’S the guy I meant.
[quote]Nards wrote:
I remember one time this came up before and there was a video series with a very annoying little guy that looked like Pauly Shore except more feminine and whiny.[/quote]
My God that guy doesn’t look feminine he looks dead. He looks like a skeleton who made a suit out of some other human’s skin to wear around and blend in with the living. I’m convinced his body must be animated via fel magics, because there’s not enough muscle there to move anything.
Seems like an OCD esque tendency to me, fear of contamination or toxicity to the physical body… Oddly enough the fear of certain foods ends up making these people more sick from simple lack of nutrition and minerals… Also seems funny that he is not worried about any damage done from the ink of his tats
I find minor amounts of orthorexia nervosa all over exercise/health articles.
I mean sure it’s better to get grassfed beef and some other food products/supplements are better than others, but it seems to me like every diet/exercise book you look at it will tell you that any food choice you may have made isn’t good enough.
“Oh, you bought natural peanut butter? From where? Oh! You bought from there?? Nope…that’s not good enough…you need to get your natural peanut butter online from whatever website.”
It sometimes seems like one is always missing getting the right food and the right one will always be right around the corner.
Yeah, the anti-pure food lobby has been beating this horse for a while. Here’s a thread on orthorexia that I started awhile ago.
[quote]Nards wrote:
I find minor amounts of orthorexia nervosa all over exercise/health articles.
I mean sure it’s better to get grassfed beef and some other food products/supplements are better than others, but it seems to me like every diet/exercise book you look at it will tell you that any food choice you may have made isn’t good enough.
“Oh, you bought natural peanut butter? From where? Oh! You bought from there?? Nope…that’s not good enough…you need to get your natural peanut butter online from whatever website.”
It sometimes seems like one is always missing getting the right food and the right one will always be right around the corner.[/quote]
It keeps people on their toes, never knowing means you will always be looking out for the next new thing. People make a lot money out of insecurity, mild orthorexia nervosa is everywhere in the fitness community! Timed feeds, post workout nutrition (omg don’t eat fat), ZMA on an empty stomach, IF, paleo, oxidised whey, mercury in fish…
I stopped questioning good food v bad food when I came across the ‘Weston A Price Foundation’ (sounds ominous I know, even cultish but its not). It’s a common sense approach to whole natural foods like bread (gasp!), brain (wtf), organic stuff (ghey) I even got a book called Nourishing Traditions which outlines a shite load of traditional recipes to maximise the nutritional value of food, even evil foods that contain gluten…
I’m in the middle of fermenting veggies at the moment. I’ve made yogurt, cheese (yeh, I know), sourdough bread and pancakes, nut butters…my wife is like “here he goes again, d’big eegit’ what’s he gona make next?” But shes on board with it, it just usually takes time and effort and a lot of mess (well for me anyway).
[quote]Varqanir wrote:
Yeah, the anti-pure food lobby has been beating this horse for a while. Here’s a thread on orthorexia that I started awhile ago.
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Some mighty food pics there Varqanir…
[quote]SLAINGE wrote:
[quote]Nards wrote:
I find minor amounts of orthorexia nervosa all over exercise/health articles.
I mean sure it’s better to get grassfed beef and some other food products/supplements are better than others, but it seems to me like every diet/exercise book you look at it will tell you that any food choice you may have made isn’t good enough.
“Oh, you bought natural peanut butter? From where? Oh! You bought from there?? Nope…that’s not good enough…you need to get your natural peanut butter online from whatever website.”
It sometimes seems like one is always missing getting the right food and the right one will always be right around the corner.[/quote]
It keeps people on their toes, never knowing means you will always be looking out for the next new thing. People make a lot money out of insecurity, mild orthorexia nervosa is everywhere in the fitness community! Timed feeds, post workout nutrition (omg don’t eat fat), ZMA on an empty stomach, IF, paleo, oxidised whey, mercury in fish…
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I think it is mostly this in the fitness industry which is where a lot of the stigma comes from. Writers need to come up with articles so they make something mundane sound interesting by playing up the effects. Using mercury as an example I have read articles with a headline like, “Fish is killing you”, or some other nonsense. A lot of hype based on research that was either inconclusive or the mice were dosed with such high levels of xyz chemical they would have died from that much of anything.
I’m not saying all chemicals are okay I just do what I can to eat healthy. What’s the point of living to be 150 if you spent most of that time as a recluse. The 3 kids in the first video were in there early 20’s. Basically they went through childhood and if they don’t change they will spent the rest of there life’s avoiding life.
As a trainer I see people always missing the forest for the trees. People tell me “I don’t know why I am fat? I eat “healthy/veg/vegan/organic/gluten free/whatever/and or all of the above!”” I try to get people to understand a general hierarchy. Getting overall calories in line first, then macros, then making good basic choices to cover micros/fiber/omegas/etc., then worrying about things like organic/ grass fed/whatever. “Rocks, sand and water.”
It’s an uphill battle with clients and nutrition, as so many come in convinced that the most insignificant parts of their diet are the most critical.