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Now, eating healthily is an illness,
Orthorexia Nervosa
You see, at all times I want to eat healthily. It's an
uncontrollable urge. True, I drink a glass of red wine (or
two) a day, but I think that is healthy too. I grow all my
own vegetables, eat foods like flaxseed and nuts, squeeze
oranges, use Extra Virgin Olive Oil and eat sourdough
bread. And shhhhh, don't tell anyone; I eat fresh
pomegranate and papaya from the garden, make up
wheatgrass juice and put apricot kernels in my whole oat
porridge.
No wonder those spotty, sit--in-front-of-their-computerscreens-eating-Pizza skeptics think I'm a quack. I still play
football. And go to the gym. At 65. No hope really.
Be clear. Now it's official. In America, wanting to eat
healthily is an ILLNESS. It's all over the media. The
psychiatric profession has spoken. Those people who hand
out drugs to control people's moods and 'mental' conditions
(when they don't know for sure how the drugs actually
work, and anyway, they don't), have spotted a new mental
condition:
Orthorexia nervosa. It's a desire to eat healthily and is
characterised by wanting to eat 'clean' or healthy foods.
Apparently sufferers are overly concerned by the
nutritional make up of what they eat. They have even been
known to read labels in Supermarkets and check
ingredients.
Not it's not April 1st.
So that's it - I have an official 'eating disorder', because I
don't fancy a frozen beef burger (with tomato ketchup and
French Fries), a can of coke and a slice of cheesecake, nor
a TV dinner fresh from the microwave. What hope is there
for me?
Will I now be declared a raving loony and my passport
endorsed? Will the psychiatrists work with the drugs
companies to develop a drug to change my mental state
and treat me? Or will I be forced into rehab - and have to
spend a week eating at McDonalds or Pizza Hut? Maybe
I'll be connected to a pesticide drip? Maybe all ingredients
labels will be removed from food packaging in
Supermarkets to protect me from my urges.
On my trip back to the UK, there was discussion on TV
suggesting fat people were given financial incentives to
diet; and smokers were given cash to stop smoking. Clearly
Big Brother is going mad.
A few years back when Codex was stopping herb sales in
Europe, I did actually write a piece entitled 'What next?
Oranges?'
So, maybe it's my fault. Maybe a psychiatrist read it.
If they want to read something new on their chosen subject
perhaps they could go to Scientific American vol 312,
where, in the 'Mind and Brain' section, there's an article on
how the bacteria in your gut control your mental state - as
I've been telling people for two years now.
Taking specific probiotics would potentially make
psychiatric drugs (and psychiatrists) redundant.
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