It’s an interesting term. It is a term categorizing people who are obsessive about eating a pure and clean healthy diet. People who will have a coniption if they ingest any trans fat or white flour. It’s all about purity with these people. And I think their condition is perfectly logical. They care enough about their health to only put into their body pure foods and drinks. It’s called taking control of your health, but the medical industrial complex has actually created a disease for people who eat too healthily. Sure, some of them have serious problems, like they don’t get enough calories, but that falls more on the anorexic side.
The only cure for this condition is to eat factory-farmed, antibiotic-laden, pesticide filled foodstuff, or to eat any of the genetically modified foods you find in 75% of processed foods. No wonder people are dying of all these diseases. People would rather not know what’s in their food as long as it tastes good. Short-term thinking over long-term thinking leads to unneccessary disease. And you can make healthy food taste good. There are tons of healthy spices and herbs. People are busy, though. They don’t have time to cook a healthy meal for their family. I guess that means they all get to go to McDonald’s, where the child’s food is companion with a toy, giving the grey hamburgers under wilted lettuce a positive memory because of some toy that breaks the second you leave the restaurant.
We’re a nation that eats too much as well. Not only is the food we eat unhealthy, we also eat too much of it. Obesity has gone up so much and early-onset diabetes is in a much larger percentage of the population. Social conditioning tells us to go along with this trend, a trend that is going to actually lower life expectancy in the coming years. So, is it to be postulated that taking control of yourself is a mental illness? Because I’m in the normal range of weight and don’t eat processed crap, I’m the one that needs help? Because I read the ingredient labels on everything I eat, that makes me obsessive?
I’m not quite orthorexic, but I do care deeply about my health because being healthy increases my capacity to contribute. I do eat processed food and it doesn’t bother me that much, as long as it’s not really unhealthy. But I used to be that way and I felt better than I do now. I used to make fruit smoothies every morning and was filled with energy. Now I down a couple cups of coffee and I get the same effect, but it’s nowhere near as healthy. But I still am very conscious of what I eat. You have to be. Otherwise, food could become an addiction. There are so many people in the world who are addicted to food. Just any old food. Anything that’s there. Usually processed, greasy, sugary, salty, MSG-laden foods. Is it better to be addicted to that or addicted to eating healthy foods? Seriously.
The Standard American Diet is a practice in self-destruction. How many more heart attacks are there than 100 years ago? Has our biology changed that much in a short span of time or is it our food? The latter is obvious. And if you get to be so obsessive that you don’t even trust the Organic label anymore, you can always convert to breatharianism, which is where you get all your nourishment from the air and the sun. But what about air pollution? Exactly. You can’t even do that. That’s when you know you have a problem. And even if you’re absolutely right about the Organic label being mostly phony or whatever, you still go hungry, which is probably worse than ingesting a couple of pesticides once in awhile. Just don’t make it a habit.
Oh, and I almost forgot! Make sure you don’t have your pets spayed and neutered. Set them free where they can live in balance with nature.
