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Old Fri, Jun-22-18, 15:16
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I know who you’re talking about - he had that as a quote in his sig and I had it out with him over it. Eating disorders are an insidious, life-sapping condition and merely counting calories ain’t it. You can’t take a behaviour that’s encouraged by the medical establishment and then decide that that, in and of itself, is a disorder.

No other species counts money, either... that doesn’t necessarily make it a pathological behaviour. No other species decided to refine and consume massive amounts of sugar and starch. When we feed these to our hapless domesticated animals, they want to eat themselves to obesity just like we do. So the “other animals just listen to their appetites” thing is moot. So would we, if all we had to eat was stuff we had to kill or pick off a tree.

“Spectrum” was the word I was going to use, too, Teaser. There’s not exactly a definitive line in the sand with such disorders. A loose one, if you had to come up with one, is to ask if the behaviour(s) are having deleterious effects on one’s life rather than improving it. If it leads to isolation, obsession, poor performance/loss of interest in school/work/hobbies, poor self-esteem... that’s when you’re getting in trouble. Those are just the mental/emotional effects.

You might have been thinking of orthorexia - obsession with diet, extreme anxiety and pinning one’s self-worth on how “pure” their diet is and how well they can stick to it.

There is also such thing as exercise addiction and exercise bulimia.
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