Wow, you're wound awfully tightly on this issue. I was merely trying to insert some levity into the discussion.

But since you insist on taking everything seriously: You're making massive assumptions about CRONers and their reproductive desires or lack thereof. Just like with me, you don't know if I had any interest in having children before the diet or not. You don't know if I am in my child bearing years or not. You don't know if I have already had a half-dozen kids and don't want any more. So to leap to any sort of assumptions about someone elses state of mind and how they got there (by diet induced lack of nurturing desire or whether they weren't interested ahead of time) is just prejudice as far as I can see it.

I think we all "get it" that you think CRON is just an eating disorder. I guess every dieter or person with a food allergy or intolerance is also disordered since they've got to restrict their foods and be rather insistant, even compulsive, about it.

It isn't uncommon for people who have to avoid various foods (like low-carbers for instance) to get accused of being eating disordered, or hypochondriacs by people who know absolutely nothing about their health issues or goals. There is SUCH peer pressure to eat like everyone else is eating, and any deviation... well that must be a disorder. Psychobabble is so annoying.

As far as I can see, if they're healthy and paying close attention to their health, and their eating doesn't involve body dysmorphia, then there is nothing disordered about it.

Totally agree. Very well said.

I still wonder over what it is people find so frightening about other people's diets? I run into this all the time. I could understand the reaction if someone was eating lightbulbs and pieces of jagged metal, but when someone is eating a healthy diet, is experiencing healthy rewards from that diet? Why jump on 'em or try to justify their diet is the result of mental instability? Or visa versa. Is it jealousy that they've got the self-control and discipline we all wish we had?