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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm sure the criteria includes the obsessive thoughts. Eating clean for legitimate health reasons probably doesn't qualify.[/quote]

It's also the rigidity. Never being flexible enough to eat something that doesn't fit the narrow definition of "clean" is clearly disordered. [/quote]

I also think that calling it "clean" eating is indicative of a disorder, because it's an inaccurate value judgment that implies the foods OP doesn't eat are "dirty." And for people like this, this will include foods like bread, corn, pasta, and cheese. They are "dirty" and "bad" foods.

You can be very committed to healthy eating and avoid all junk foods without making a big deal about how you "eat clean." No one is forcing you to eat McDonalds or Doritos. Just decline that if offered and eat the foods that work for you and make you feel good. But this need to divide foods into "clean" and "dirty" and to label foods like dairy or gluten that plenty of people eat *as part of a healthy diet*, and to express fear that somehow you will be made to eat "unclean" foods that will make you sick, is a disorder.

I know lots of people who eat very healthy and never eat junk food and none of them have orthorexia. They also don't worry too much about what other people eat, don't use loaded and judgmental language when discussing food, don't bring up food constantly, and express fear that their diets will be contaminated by the "unclean" eating of others.[/quote]

Exactly. Thank you. [/quote]

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