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[quote=Anonymous]   I suspect years from now we will be as surprised the DSM tried to make 100% clean eating a disorder as we are now are surprised homosexuality was once considered a disorder. I understand a disorder is defined by impairing functioning, but having anxiety about chemical filled food to the point of bringing your own foods is something a lot of people I know who reversed illness have and do. I reversed a very serious health issue with ultra clean eating and lifestyle and don't need medication (verified by a doctor and medical tests). Old school doctors told me this would be impossible, yet all the tests tell a different story. I think it's  insane that we are concerned if a person wants to eat 100% clean. If that person panics and won't eat Doritos, then get him or her an apple. If they are anxious about having to eat one meal of processed foods, I can tell you processed foods make me feel pretty sick afterwards so I get it.

I have connected with others with my autoimmune disorder and with cancer who also found massive benefits with clean eating and lifestyle and won't touch processed garbage. They even panic at having to eat junk because it makes them ill.

Throwing up food on purpose is a disorder. Starving oneself is a disorder. Insisting on eating healthy food and being worried that processed foods will make you ill? Not a disorder. Plenty of people have told me they ate mostly healthy and didn't worry about having junk now and then and the junk they ate as a kid until they got sick.

How strange that there is a disorder name for people who eat ultra healthy and feel anxious about chemicals, but there is no disorder for people who eat mostly standard American diet of junk. I don't think either should be a disorder, but I am very curious what the driving force was to pathologize refusing to eat junk at all.[/quote]

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