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.”