GMO industry hacks and shills trying

to claim that healthy eating is a

‘mental disorder’
Submitted by IWB, on January 25th, 2016
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by: S. Johnson

(NaturalNews) We live in an age of pseudo-illness, from obesity to

ADHD. These “diseases” are cooked up in the imaginations of doctors
and psychiatrists who attach a label to any arbitrary list of symptoms.
In the latest gambit of intellectual chutzpah, scientists at the
University of Northern Colorado claim that people with a passion for
nutrition may be suffering from a mental disorder.
The latest pseudo-disorder to take the academy by storm is called
orthorexia nervosa (ON), which is characterized as “a pathologic
obsession for bio-logically pure and healthy nutrition,” says Ryan M.
Moroze, MD. In other words, if you strive to maintain healthy eating
habits, according to these loons, you just might have a problem. (1)
The researchers deduced the “disorder” from a case study on the
obsession of eating healthy. The psychologists behind the study insist
that eating healthy can turn against you if you insist to know where
food comes from, how it is prepared and what goes into it.
Symptoms include taking extra time to prepare food and setting
guidelines about what you will and will not eat.(1)

The hell of being healthy

Any obsession has the potential to become dangerous. But where do
the risks lie? Thomas Dunn, associate professor of psychology at the
University of Northern Colorado, who co-authored the paper suggests:

Such draconian diets can lack essential nutrients, and they make the
vitamins and minerals a person does get from meals of exclusively,
say, leafy greens, impossible for the body to absorb. This can lead to
fragile bones, hormonal shifts, and cardiac problems, along with
psychological distress and entrenched, delusional thinking.(1)
Never mind the fact that more than 90 percent of the food system is
littered with processed foods, which have been produced with lots of
carbohydrates, sugars and trans fats, and little nutrients. Nor the fact
that major diseases – real disease – that plague the United States are
very much food-related, including heart disease, cancer and diabetes.
According to food expert Michael Pollan, this is the first time in history
when people can be both overweight and malnourished. (2)
In response to American’s health epidemic, health professionals,
doctors and Big Pharma have pumped out a steady stream of pills and
medications to treat the diseases, both real and fictitious, that they
created. In actuality, our primary source of medicine should come
from food – not doctors.

Are you a certified health enthusiast?

How can you tell if you are “suffering” from orthorexia? Not to fear:
Dr. Dunn has created an arbitrary list of symptoms. Other than the
first symptom, if you identify with two or more of the following,
congratulations! You qualify as a certified health enthusiast:

1. You consume a nutritionally unbalanced diet because of concerns

about “food purity.”
2. You’re preoccupied about how eating impure or unhealthy foods
will affect your physical or emotional health.
3. You rigidly avoid any food you deem to be “unhealthy,” such as
those containing fat, preservatives, additives or animal products.
4. You spend three or more hours per day reading about, acquiring or
preparing certain kinds of food you believe to be “pure.”
5. You feel guilty if you eat foods you believe to be “impure.”
6. You’re intolerant of other’s food beliefs.
7. You spend an excessive proportion of your income on “pure” foods.

While everyone should be concerned about the purity, safety and

healthiness of the foods they eat, it is important to always remember
to eat a well balanced diet, which means incorporating a wide variety
of different plant-based foods.

“Orthorexia has not yet found its way into the latest edition of the
psychiatric bible, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental
Disorders (DSM), yet is commonly being lumped in with other eating
disorders,” notes investigative journalist Jeffery Jaxen.(1)
“Stepping back and looking at the ones pushing this label on us shows
highly questionable motives. Psychiatry as a whole is deeply in bed
with a pharmaceutical industry that makes the drugs to ‘treat’ every
one of these ‘disorders.’ It is often these companies that are wielding
influence behind the scenes to invent more mental health categories
with their toxic products as the answer,” he added.(1)