When I first came across Amelia Hill's article in The Guardian, I assumed that it was a joke. It explains that healthy dieting is a symptom of a serious mental illness. She wasn't joking. Moreover, some of her colleagues agree with her. Regardless of the lack of intentional comedy, we thought that her findings were hilarious.
"Refusing to touch sugar, salt, caffeine, alcohol, wheat, gluten, yeast, soya, corn and dairy foods is just the start of their diet restrictions. Any foods that have come into contact with pesticides, herbicides or contain artificial additives are also out."
There is an increasing number of such 'mentally ill' people, who do not wish to consume pesticides and artificial additives, and other food items which have been shown to be damaging to health. Yes, we're all crazy. Entire professions, restaurants and retail stores have been created to accommodate this epidemic of deeply disturbed people. Perhaps new psychiatric institutions will be opened soon to provide troubled patients with Pepsi and Dorito's as therapeutic medications.
"The condition, orthorexia nervosa, affects equal numbers of men and women, but sufferers tend to be aged over 30, middle-class and well-educated."
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