Posted on 09/06/2008 8:02:56 AM PDT by yorkie
It's no surprise that a lot of Americans watch what they eat. Counting calories, nutrients and fat grams is practically a national pastime.
But what happens when people go over the line, and the pursuit of healthy eating actually becomes unhealthy?
For Johnny Righini, a 26-year-old from California, eating a nutritious lunch is a painstaking ritual.
"Sometimes it takes days to prepare meals, because I have to sprout things, ferment things," he said. "I am constantly thinking about what I am gonna have for my next meal."
Charlotte Andersen, a 29-year-old Minnesota mother of three, says she went through the same thing.
"It really turned into a huge problem, and I think that there are a lot of other people out there that have this issue," she said.
Food took over her life. She compulsively catalogued everything she ate.
"I was obsessed with things like macro-nutrient ratios, numbers, charts," she said.
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Why izzit that the most unhealthy looking people in any shopping area are those that work in the health food stores?
Fortunately for me, I allow farmers and breweries to do the "sprouting and fermenting" for me.
This is a video clip of Johnny Righini, who was interviewed on the program last night. He is very ill with Orthorexia Nervosa:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pn9oiiGzAG8&feature=related
20/20 should be ashamed of themselves.
Why do you say that?
Because they asked my rawfood group for people to be on this show and I wasn’t on it because I didn’t LOOK the part. IOW, I wasn’t a skinny ashen looking crazed rawfooder. They’re very deceptive as most producers are because it gets the ratings. They were really only interested in the freaks saying ‘cooked food is poison’. It’s a shame because I’ve managed to stay relatively problem free through a healthy lifestyle.
John Stossel fancies himself an iconoclast, and some of his work is great. But too often his schtick is just to point a goofy finger at fringers and smirk.
He couldn’t have normal-looking health-food fans on the show, because then he’d be the one looking goofy.
And for everyone of these finnicky, fanatic types he had on his show, there are hundreds or thousands of people who just use health foods and are better for it.
Of course, his show topic is “obsessing” about health food, but if these people have a genuine mental health issue, why mock them?
This is a pretty good [really outstanding] psychological profile of the kinds of kooks who tried to storm the stage on Wednesday night during Sarah's speech, and Thursday night during McAmnesty's speech, and that kook who went postal on Michelle Malkin in Denver.
Remember what Michael Wiener said: Liberalism is a mental disorder.
This isn’t about food, it’s about psychosis. If it weren’t for all the nutrition Nazis out there, they’d probably be obsessed with clothing or something else that way too much attention is focused on, relative to its actual worth.
You know the only thing I obsess about is the DEVIL PORK.
http://network1.1.googlepages.com/PorkCola.jpg
So it’s the devil who made pork so tasty!
I’ve got some Satanic Sausages frying on the griddle right now.
I watched this program last night, and it was the first time I had heard of this disorder.
I have watched a friend get thinner and thinner over the past few years, while juicing organic vegetables and fruits, avoiding meat, wheat, cheese, eggs, sugars, carbohydrates. There should be a balance in food choices - IMHO.
My grandparents and parents all lived to be near or over 90 years old, and ate what they wanted, and had healthy lives.
I am not kidding you. I have a friend who is in Ward 7 (”Wacko Academy”) right now in large part because his disorder takes the form of an obsession with fad diets which he strictly observes and which end by making him goofier by several orders of magnitude than he needs to be.
That said, I have two first cousins, within a year of me in age, who have been “food faddists” for twenty years. As time has gone by, we have all developed health problems associated with aging. They as well as I. No better or worse. Their dietary eccentricities, as I understand them, have more to do with a neurotic form of social control than anything else.
When talking to a director of one of these organizations, that encourage organic foods only, John Stossel said, “But she was only 38 when she died.”, and the director said something like, “yes, but when she crossed into another realm, she was cleansed.”
Oh my gosh! He’s so concerned about what food goes into his mouth, but not about those filthy piercings and tattoos or homosexual acts.
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