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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If there is someone disordered on this thread, it is the people suggesting that eating McDonald’s crap and highly processed foods is no big deal, not OP.

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Well, eating McDonald's or highly processed crap extremely occasional is actually not that big of a deal -- it might make you feel bad but it's not going to kill you if you eat fast food on a road trip a couple times a year.

But no one on this thread is arguing that junk food is good for you or that you *should* eat it -- pretty much everyone agrees it's bad for you and best avoided. But there's a difference between thinking McDonald's is not good for you (true), and thinking that all hamburgers or French fries are junk food (not true) or that anyone who eats McDonalds, or burgers, or fries, ever, is an unhealthy person (not true).

It's the severe, rigid, highly judgmental and moralistic approach to food that is a hallmark of orthorexia and it *is* a disorder. Because it's not really even about eating healthy or being healthy. It's about control, obsession, punishment, and judgment.[/quote]

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