Re: Orthorexic - How many of us qualify?

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At 02:34 PM 3/29/05 -0000, you wrote:

> " My friends say my obsession is unhealthy, but how can it be? This

>anal, obsessive, over-researched, ultra-intellectualised honing of my

>diet will, I hope, allow me to live to 140 years of age, in perpetual

>youth and vigour, corpus mentis until multiple organ failure or an

>unnoticed bus does me in. "

Actually, I plan to live forever. It's just that I'll be 17 the whole

time.

MFJ

If I have to be a grownup, can I at least be telekinetic too?

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> Actually, I plan to live forever. It's just that I'll be 17 the

whole

> time.

>

>

>

> MFJ

> If I have to be a grownup, can I at least be telekinetic too?

You DO mean mentally, right? <exit, stage right>

Deanna

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>

> From: " F. Jewett " <mfjewett@...>

>At 02:34 PM 3/29/05 -0000, you wrote:

>> " My friends say my obsession is unhealthy, but how can it be? This

>>anal, obsessive, over-researched, ultra-intellectualised honing of my

>>diet will, I hope, allow me to live to 140 years of age, in perpetual

>>youth and vigour, corpus mentis until multiple organ failure or an

>>unnoticed bus does me in. "

>

>

>Actually, I plan to live forever. It's just that I'll be 17 the whole

>time.

EWWWW! Couldn't you pick, like, 24?

Teenagers exist to remind us that some animals eat their young.

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At 03:24 PM 3/29/05 -0000, you wrote:

>> Actually, I plan to live forever. It's just that I'll be 17 the

>whole

>> time.

>

>You DO mean mentally, right? <exit, stage right>

>

>

>Deanna

>

I'm 17. Always have been, always will be.

MFJ

If I have to be a grownup, can I at least be telekinetic too?

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At 11:35 AM 3/29/05 -0500, you wrote:

>>Actually, I plan to live forever. It's just that I'll be 17 the whole

>>time.

>

>EWWWW! Couldn't you pick, like, 24?

>Teenagers exist to remind us that some animals eat their young.

>--

> Quick, USUM (ret.)

Well, actually, I was having a lot more fun at 17 than 24.

MFJ

If I have to be a grownup, can I at least be telekinetic too?

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At 5:29 PM +0000 3/29/05, wrote:

>Message: 24

> Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 12:18:25 -0500

> From: " F. Jewett " <mfjewett@...>

>Subject: Re: Re: Orthorexic - How many of us qualify?

>

>At 11:35 AM 3/29/05 -0500, you wrote:

>>>Actually, I plan to live forever. It's just that I'll be 17 the whole

>>>time.

>>

>>EWWWW! Couldn't you pick, like, 24?

>>Teenagers exist to remind us that some animals eat their young.

>>--

>> Quick, USUM (ret.)

>

>Well, actually, I was having a lot more fun at 17 than 24.

Probably a good thing I didn't know you when *I* was 17...not that I

know you now, lol!

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Quick, USUM (ret.)

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Term limits: one term in office, one term in jail.-- Wolfe.

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At 01:48 PM 3/29/05 -0500, you wrote:

>>Well, actually, I was having a lot more fun at 17 than 24.

>

>Probably a good thing I didn't know you when *I* was 17...not that I

>know you now, lol!

You must have misunderstood me. I was sweet, innocent, and pure.

Just like I am now.

You may get off the floor now. Carry on.

MFJ

If I have to be a grownup, can I at least be telekinetic too?

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Hi Pratick,

> Just had to post this - a delightful and humourous look at the

> obesession with food quality.

>

> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/4389849.stm

>

True story.

I discovered the orthorexia theory over a year ago. It was a web page

similar to the article you listed above and it linked to the creator of the

theory. http://www.orthorexia.com/ At the time I was involved in a small

battle with Dr. Plotkin at Dr. Mercola's Wellness Center and I was in

massive resistance to the notion that I had to change my diet from the Zone

to the Metabolic Typing Diet. I had also just read a couple of Dr.

Mercola's newsletter posts about how he would never go into space (his

childhood dream, IIRC) because the radiation would decrease his lifespan and

I was just generally running around dissing him for his food obsessiveness

when I encountered the Orthorexia idea. So in a little bit of a pique I

anonymously sent Dr. Plotkin the link to the website along with some kind of

smarta** comments about their entire practice being whacked out and they

might want to consider therapy.

To their credit a couple of weeks later Mercola posted a newsletter article

discussing it. LOL.

Ron

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> I had also just read a couple of Dr.

> Mercola's newsletter posts about how he would never go into space (his

> childhood dream, IIRC) because the radiation would decrease his

lifespan and

> I was just generally running around dissing him for his food

obsessiveness

> when I encountered the Orthorexia idea. So in a little bit of a

pique I

> anonymously sent Dr. Plotkin the link to the website along with some

kind of

> smarta** comments about their entire practice being whacked out and

they

> might want to consider therapy.

Just my take, but I think some things, like going out into space, might

be worth loosing a tiny bit of lifespan.