Orthorexic - How many of us qualify?

[Guest guest]

Greetings,

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

" Orthorexia nervosa is an unhealthy obsession with healthy eating.

Unlike the related anorexia, sufferers are concerned not with

quantity but with quality. It's not about feeling fat, but about

feeling pure. "

" Dr Bratman admits that after a year of his own extreme dieting

he " regarded the wretched, debauched souls downing their chocolate

chip cookies and French fries as mere animals reduced to satisfying

gustatory lusts " .

" There's something quintessentially hunter-gatherer about sourcing

the best ingredients and foraging for healthy morsels among jungles

of junk.

Searching for good food locally has proved time-consuming, but you do

have friendly chats with grocers who take pride in their work, rather

than clipped questions about reward cards with the teenage automatons

who staff the supermarkets. "

" 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. "

-Pratick