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To: EdnaMode

There’s an eating disorder called “Orthorexia” in which sufferers have an inordinate fascination with not just what they eat but with what other people eat.

One of the key indicators of orthorexia is a feeling of moral superiority to other people because of one’s own dietary choices.


4 posted on 10/27/2017 9:26:04 AM PDT by MeganC (Democrat by birth, Republican by default, Conservative by principle.)
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To: MeganC

The slang name for the disorder is called Vegan.


12 posted on 10/27/2017 9:28:31 AM PDT by IllumiNaughtyByNature (HTTP 500 - Internal Server Error)
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To: MeganC

I’ve read some articles on Orthorexia. There are some people I know who exhibited a lot of symptoms. Some never allow themselves a single serving of sweets or fast food.


32 posted on 10/27/2017 9:38:09 AM PDT by EdnaMode
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To: MeganC

Orthorexia is becoming a major problem. I have been reading about just how messed up a significant portion of our population is getting with obsession over avoiding or only eating certain foods, that eventually gets more and more limited and restrictive.

It can cripple some people from travelling, or even eating away from home. I see a lot of orthorexic comments on FR even.


53 posted on 10/27/2017 10:00:48 AM PDT by Codeflier (Thank you for speaking truth to power President Trump)
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To: MeganC
In my experience, people with anorexia are often heavily preoccupied with observing, thinking about, and judging what others are eating. This can be taken to very annoying extremes.

But I don't see that much wrong with occasional stories about Trump's unusual meal selections.

87 posted on 10/27/2017 11:20:29 AM PDT by wideminded
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To: MeganC

Liberals have abandoned purity as a standard of morality for sex. But they haven’t abandoned it as a moral principle, just apply it to food instead.
Whether “no GMO” to “clean eating” to veganism, liberals ARE applying ethics to food and trying to apply that to other people, but lack the coherence of kosher and halal.
Sounds like orthorexia is a major problem for liberals.


107 posted on 10/27/2017 2:22:31 PM PDT by tbw2
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