The Raw Path

I have a friend who only eats processed foods that are pre-made from places like 7-11. Another friend sticks to processed foods mostly from restaurants and fast food places. I thought that was a bit bizarre, especially when some people will even go to extreme lengths to make sure there is nothing even remotely fresh and healthy in their meals at all. They go as far as to take the lettuce, tomato, onion etc off the burger. There are people who shop only from the boxed and canned, pre-made section of the store, avoiding the real foods such as fresh fruits and vegetables.

New findings indicate that there may be hundreds, if not thousands, of adult picky eaters. To get a handle on the numbers, Duke University and the University of Pittsburgh have launched a national public registry of adult picky eaters.

Publications like JAMA and Psychology Today are attempting to create another new eating disorder, orthorexia, that they want you to think of as "an obsession" with healthy eating. Which really means that you care about your health and want to live a full and satisfying life. That may not sound bad (you know cus it actually isn't bad at all, we are just trying to make it seem that way), as obsessions go, because it is actually the healthiest way to eat. Some people carry this good intention so far that they can face serious consequences. Such as never getting sick- not even colds, never needing doctors anymore, healing themselves from so-called incurable diseases and experiencing overall wellbeing, radiant health and a natural abundance of energy.

Neither adult picky eating disorder nor orthorexia is included in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM), the American Psychiatric Association's “bible” of mental disorders. Because caring about what you eat is not a disorder. Once a disorder is listed, treatment is often covered by insurance and it’s easier for researchers to get grants to study it. So we really really want to make this into a disorder and maybe find some type of harmful drug to combat this eating healthy movement that is gaining so much popularity from people who realize how sick and diseased unnatural foods are making them.

What is Adult Selective Eating?

Like kids, adult picky eaters limit themselves to an extremely narrow range of foods. Unlike those who suffer from anorexia nervosa or bulimia, adult picky eaters are seemingly not worried about calorie counts or body image. But so far, researchers don't know if adult picky eaters just haven't outgrown childhood patterns or if their eating habits are a new twist on obsessive compulsive disorder. Some may be “supertasters,” with an abnormally acute sense of taste that turns them off certain foods. Many appear to have had unpleasant childhood associations with food. Our goal here is to turn healthy eating into a disease we can label, medicate, profit from, and discourage people from in any way possible. We are scared that this movement back towards eating actual real food will make the masses healthy, smarter, have higher IQ scores and be overall much harder to manipulate, control, brainwash, confuse and outright lie to.

What is orthorexia? Identified in 1997 by Colorado physician Steven Bratman, MD, orthorexia is Latin for “correct eating.” Because to eat natural food is in fact the correct way to eat. Here, too, the focus isn’t on losing weight. Instead, "sufferers" increasingly restrict their diets to foods they consider pure, natural and healthful because they realize the dangers resulting from eating chemicals, artificial processed fake food that is devoid of life and nutrients. Some researchers say that orthorexia may combine a touch of obsessive compulsive disorder with anxiety and warn that severely limited “healthy” diets may be a stepping stone to anorexia nervosa, the most severe - and potentially life-threatening - eating disorder when in fact this is nothing more then a scare tactic to keep the masses from taking back their power. Obviously people are not acting out of fear, rather from the desire to feel better and be healthy. Duh.

Adult picky eaters, what do they eat?

Food preferences tend to be bland, white or pale colored - plain pasta or cheese pizza are said to be common foods along with French fries and chicken fingers. Some picky eaters stick to foods with a common texture or taste.

Orthorexics:

Those affected may start by eliminating processed foods, anything with artificial colorings or flavorings as well as foods that have come into contact with pesticides. Beyond that, some orthorexics may also shun caffeine, alcohol, sugar, salt, wheat and dairy foods. Some "limit" themselves to foods with life force and raw natural foods like every other species on this planet eats, besides those we domesticate who are now experiencing the same ill health and diseases as people who eat unnaturally do.

What are the risks?

Health consequences: Limiting your diet to only a few foods - because you're a picky eater or have a long list of foods you deem unhealthy - can lead to potentially dangerous nutritional deficiencies. At its most extreme, a diet limited to only a few foods perceived to be healthy is described as orthorexia nervosa and can lead to the same emaciation and health risks seen with anorexia nervosa. However this is highly rare as most ortorexics eat a far far greater variety of foods then what society deems a normal eater. Most "normal" people that are not into healthy food only eat about 15 types of food on average and most of it is the same food in different form. The most common being meat, dairy, wheat. For example a burger: meat, cheese, wheat. Spaghetti: pasta (wheat), dairy and meat. Looks different but it is the same food types.

Social Isolation: Being an adult picky eater can take an enormous social toll though it does not have to and rarely ever does unless you have an underlying mental issue. Out of embarrassment, these folks avoid dining with friends or co-workers. Heather Hill tries to hide her eating habits from her children for fear that they will pick them up. Going to extremes in an effort to eat only healthy foods can also be socially isolating and can undermine personal relationships. This is not from being picky or wanting to eat healthy food, but rather an issue that the person needs to get over and learn to accept themselves and stop trying to please others.

How are these disorders treated?

Adult Selective Eating: Techniques that have proven successful in treating kids who are picky eaters - learning assertiveness skills and systematically trying new foods - are being used on adults, but it’s still too soon to know whether they work. Because many parents are too lazy or busy or they do not want to actually do their job and offer healthier foods until the child accepts them. They start them off on artificial formulas and move on to fast food and bright colored packages. What kid would want an apple when they have artificial fruit flavored jelly snacks and such around the house? Those are drugs and healthy foods do not stand a chance when kids get conditioned from birth to eat drugs and non-foods.

Orthorexia: Cognitive behavior therapy designed to change obsessive thought patterns regarding food is usually recommended. Obsessive we mean here is caring about what goes into your body, the basic materials your cells are constructed from. If we had it our way, you would eat the food produced for the masses and shut up with all this caring how you feel etc. Just fit in our little box and buy our products and when you get sick from it, we can charge you thousands of dollars to cut out parts of your body from the damage. You know like normal people. Can't you all just be normal. It's impossible for us to profit if you are so wise.

The real and very dangerous problem that we want you to ignore, is all the people who are so ill from eating unnaturally. We prefer to make the healthy eaters the bad guys. Because they are dangerous. They are on the way to creating massive changes on a large scale as the truth spreads, and this means that those of us who profit from your suffering will be out of work. We simply will not tolerate this.