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Originally Posted by Villages PL
It's interesting that you haven't said the same about those who are promoting it as a disease. So far it's not clinically recognized as a disease. So it's only their opinion. Therefore, it's up to them to prove it and so far they haven't been able to. I don't think the burden should be on me to disprove something that hasn't been proven.
But I can tell you why I think it hasen't been officially accepted a disease: They don't have any specifics on any of it. If they would say that going below a certain BMI is a sign of Orthorexia, then that would be something concrete. But they don't want specifics. That wouldn't work for them because they want ALL healthy eaters to be under suspicion of having an unhelthy obsession.
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Orthorexia doesn't necessarily exhibit itself as a disease of body weight, malnutrition etc. It's a
behavioral problem and maybe a psychiatric one, and actually "addiction" would be a better term to use than obsession.
The person gets addicted to their grueling, expensive, punishing regimen and cannot stop.
The people I know well who have orthorexia have also been addicted to bingeing and purging (bulimia), anorexic, and alcoholic. They are
addicts, I'm very sad to say.