I was reading The Never Done Farm blog and she shared this article from the Natural News. I have to be honest, at first I thought I was reading something from the Onion News Network! A comedy news site. The very idea that people who want to eat food the way God made it and avoid toxic chemicals like msg, and gmo foods are mental ill is insane!
I’ve also posted this in our forum if you’d like to join in a discussion.
Choosing healthy foods now called a mental disorder
http://www.naturalnews.com/029098_orthor…mental_disorder.html
(NaturalNews) In its never-ending attempt to fabricate “mental disorders” out of every human activity, the psychiatric industry is now pushing the most ridiculous disease they’ve invented yet: Healthy eating disorder.
This is no joke: If you focus on eating healthy foods, you’re “mentally diseased” and probably need some sort of chemical treatment involving powerful psychotropic drugs. The Guardian newspaper reports, “Fixation with healthy eating can be sign of serious psychological disorder” and goes on to claim this “disease” is called orthorexia nervosa — which is basically just Latin for “nervous about correct eating.”
But they can’t just called it “nervous healthy eating disorder” because that doesn’t sound like they know what they’re talking about. So they translate it into Latin where it sounds smart (even though it isn’t). That’s where most disease names come from: Doctors just describe the symptoms they see with a name like osteoporosis (which means “bones with holes in them”).
Getting back to this fabricated “orthorexia” disease, the Guardian goes on to report, “Orthorexics commonly have rigid rules around eating. 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.”
Wait a second. So attempting to avoid chemicals, dairy, soy and sugar now makes you a mental health patient? Yep. According to these experts. If you actually take special care to avoid pesticides, herbicides and genetically modified ingredients like soy and sugar, there’s something wrong with you.
But did you notice that eating junk food is assumed to be “normal?” If you eat processed junk foods laced with synthetic chemicals, that’s okay with them. The mental patients are the ones who choose organic, natural foods, apparently.
What is “normal” when it comes to foods?
I told you this was coming. Years ago, I warned NaturalNews readers that an attempt might soon be under way to outlaw broccoli because of its anti-cancer phytonutrients. This mental health assault on health-conscious consumers is part of that agenda. It’s an effort to marginalize healthy eaters by declaring them to be mentally unstable and therefore justify carting them off to mental institutions where they will be injected with psychiatric drugs and fed institutional food that’s all processed, dead and full of toxic chemicals.
The Guardian even goes to the ridiculous extreme of saying, “The obsession about which foods are “good” and which are “bad” means orthorexics can end up malnourished.”
Follow the non-logic on this, if you can: Eating “good” foods will cause malnutrition! Eating bad foods, I suppose, is assumed to provide all the nutrients you need. That’s about as crazy a statement on nutrition as I’ve ever read. No wonder people are so diseased today: The mainstream media is telling them that eating health food is a mental disorder that will cause malnutrition!
Shut up and swallow your Soylent Green
It’s just like I reported years ago: You’re not supposed to question your food, folks. Sit down, shut up, dig in and chow down. Stop thinking about what you’re eating and just do what you’re told by the mainstream media and its processed food advertisers. Questioning the health properties of your junk food is a mental disorder, didn’t you know? And if you “obsess” over foods (by doing such things as reading the ingredients labels, for example), then you’re weird. Maybe even sick.
That’s the message they’re broadcasting now. Junk food eaters are “normal” and “sane” and “nourished.” But health food eaters are diseased, abnormal and malnourished.
But why, you ask, would they attack healthy eaters? People like Dr. Gabriel Cousens can tell you why: Because increased mental and spiritual awareness is only possible while on a diet of living, natural foods.
Eating junk foods keeps you dumbed down and easy to control, you see. It literally messes with your mind, numbing your senses with MSG, aspartame and yeast extract. People who subsist on junk foods are docile and quickly lose the ability to think for themselves. They go along with whatever they’re told by the TV or those in apparent positions of authority, never questioning their actions or what’s really happening in the world around them.
In contrast to that, people who eat health-enhancing natural foods — with all the medicinal nutrients still intact — begin to awaken their minds and spirits. Over time, they begin to question the reality around them and they pursue more enlightened explorations of topics like community, nature, ethics, philosophy and the big picture of things that are happening in the world. They become “aware” and can start to see the very fabric of the Matrix, so to speak.
This, of course, is a huge danger to those who run our consumption-based society because consumption depends on ignorance combined with suggestibility. For people to keep blindly buying foods, medicines, health insurance and consumer goods, they need to have their higher brain functions switched off. Processed junk foods laced with toxic chemicals just happens to achieve that rather nicely. Why do you think dead, processed foods remain the default meals in public schools, hospitals and prisons? It’s because dead foods turn off higher levels of awareness and keep people focused on whatever distractions you can feed their brains: Television, violence, fear, sports, sex and so on.
But living as a zombie is, in one way quite “normal” in society today because so many people are doing it. But that doesn’t make it normal in my book: The real “normal” is an empowered, healthy, awakened person nourished with living foods and operating as a sovereign citizen in a free world. Eating living foods is like taking the red pill because over time it opens up a whole new perspective on the fabric of reality. It sets you free to think for yourself.
But eating processed junk foods is like taking the blue pill because it keeps you trapped in a fabricated reality where your life experiences are fabricated by consumer product companies who hijack your senses with designer chemicals (like MSG) that fool your brain into thinking you’re eating real food.
If you want to be alive, aware and in control of your own life, eat more healthy living foods. But don’t expect to be popular with mainstream mental health “experts” or dieticians — they’re all being programmed to consider you to be “crazy” because you don’t follow their mainstream diets of dead foods laced with synthetic chemicals.
But you and I know the truth here: We are the normal ones. The junk food eaters are the real mental patients, and the only way to wake them up to the real world is to start feeding them living foods.
Some people are ready to take the red pill, and others aren’t. All you can do is show them the door. They must open it themselves.
In the mean time, try to avoid the mental health agents who are trying to label you as having a mental disorder just because you pay attention to what you put in your body. There’s nothing wrong with avoiding sugar, soy, MSG, aspartame, HFCS and other toxic chemicals in the food supply. In fact, your very life depends on it.
Oh, and by the way, if you want to join the health experts who keep inventing new fictitious diseases and disorders, check out my popular Disease Mongering Engine web page where you can invent your own new diseases at the click of a button! You’ll find it at: www.naturalnews.com/disease-…
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I’m sorry, but I don’t think I’ve read something so St*pid ever. This just goes to show the world in which we are now living. Nothing like ever before…and this is another thing to solidify it for me. A very sad day when someone could even think such a thing let alone write about it. Pathetic.
At our last dental appointment, my son had to get a filling. I choose NOT to get the mercury silver fillings, paying extra not to have them. As the Doctor was reviewing what he was going to do with me, he had me verify ( because of the extra expense) that I did not want the mercury fillings, I agreed, and replied, ” Yes, the less Mercury and Floride in our bodies the better!” His assistant than turned around from looking in my sons mouth, rolled her eyes, and gave me a dirty look. With her actions she was clearing saying, without speaking that I was some type of nut-job. So, I totally believe this story. It’s very sad this has come to this…
Thanks Kim for linking to our blog. Isn’t this just the silliest thing you’ve ever read? To think that someone actually got paid( well I suspect) to write something like this*sigh* I guess I’ve known I was crazy anyway, because everyone keeps telling me the way we live and how hard we work and our simple life with God as the head is crazy, okay crazy like a fox*wink*
Blessings,
Kelle
To the comment M…I probably would have said something to her. Asked her why (in front of the dentist)LOL, why she rolled her eyes and gave you such a dirty look.
I never use to be like that but having a special needs daughter and getting the dirty looks and rolling of the eyes, I am less timid in those areas. These people need to explain or give account as to their expressions and rude comments. Yes, we are entitled to our opinions, but then let’s keep them to ourselves.
Anyway, just my two cents worth…but good job in wanting the best for your son…and mercury fillings is a “no good” in my books.:-)
I was 52 years old and I had a massive stroke in 1999. I’m 62. I couldn’t speak, completely aphasic, and I couldn’t walk; confined to a wheelchair and five hospitals. Nothing clicks. It’s a profound, hopelessly, bleak situation and no way out. It’s tabula rasa; it’s a blank slate.
Read my blog. 20 pages.
http://mercuryfillingsandtheoddstroke.blogspot.com/
and How to Stroke Out with Mercury Fillings (FireHow.com) It’s an amended version. Three pages.
Thank you.
The world we live in today is truly a crazy place. And “experts” like to make it even crazier and more complicated by labelling just about every kind of human behaviour as a disease that needs to be fixed. When did common sense disappear?
Yes, one of the stupidest things I have read. And I’m not talking about the Guardian’s article, but this Mike Adams’ article you reposted.
“people who want to eat food the way God made it and avoid toxic chemicals like msg, and gmo foods are mental ill”
That’s not what the article says. Did you actually read it? Or did you just buy Mike’s word of it?
Let’s talk about obsessive compulsive training. It’s a mental disorder. Training is good for you, obsessing about training, letting training become the most important part of your life is not good for you. If you train too much, you will harm yourself. It is only MODERATE exercise that is good for you, not EXCESSIVE.
No-one has said that caring about what you eat means you are mentally sick. They are saying that when you get OBSESSIVE about what you eat, have VERY STRICT RULES and not very rational rules at that – you are living in the Nervosa world. The “nervous” part means that you are TERRIFIED of something. People with orthorexia aren’t just keeping an eye on what they eat and trying to eat greener and healthier, no, they are TERRIFIED of “non-healthy”, “non-organic”, “non-ecological” food (or “processed”, “dead” food, like Mike Adams seems to be), OBSESSED of eating right, CONSTANTLY thinking about the food. They believe people who follow their food rules are better people, and the people who do NOT follow their rules are worse. (Or people eating according to their rules are “awake” and “conscious” while people eating differently are basically drugged vegetables.) Consequently they also see their own worth connected to how well they manage to follow the rules.
It’s when YOUR FOOD OBSESSION HAS TAKEN OVER YOUR LIFE and your life is very little about anything but the healthy food. It’s not about the normal people who care about what they eat and how it effects themselves and the world they are living in.
My cousin’s daughter decided to become a vegan. It wasn’t the normal, healthy vegan lifestyle though. She refused to eat anything that had been prepared in the same kitchen where there had been any food that wasn’t vegan. She also refused to eat legumes, because she didn’t like them. She ate candy though, all kind of candy, whether there was animal products in it or not. She is small for her age and looks sick, and I wouldn’t be the least surprised if her irrational food rules have already damaged her health and caused malnutrition.
THIS is the sort of “being concerned about healthy eating” the doctors are talking about, worried about and calling an eating disorder – which Mike Adams is mocking in his article – not the normal being concerned about what one eats.
Nowhere in Guardian’s article are junk food eaters called “normal”, “sane” nor “nourished”. They aren’t even mentioned.
Nowhere in the article is it said that people trying to eat healthy and ecologically responsible are “mentally unstable”. Not even people with orthorexia are called “mentally unstable”. Orthorexia is called a disorder, like phobias, seasonal affective disorder, panic anxiety, OCD and PTSD. Are you saying those are “invented” too, and don’t exist? That anorexia doesn’t exist, and all the people starving themselves to death are totally normal and healthy people who should be left in peace by the sick psychiatric doctors, and are in no way harming themselves or in danger of dying?
I have met people who suffer from different disorders and even though they are not “mentally insane” people, they do suffer. My own panic anxiety and social phobia was due to PTSD from being bullied from age 10 to 30, when I finally broke. My disorders are VERY REAL to me and I am extremely offended and upset by this Mike Adams’ stupidity, arrogance, ignorance and egotism, and by the way people who claim to care about the world spread his words as if he was God’s Prophet…
Mike Adams’ article is nothing but a fanatic’s attack against something that threatens his “religion”, and he uses the article to preach his “religion”. What about reading the original article and thinking for yourself instead of letting self-proclaimed gurus like Mike Adams put his conspiracy theories in your head?
Ketutar wrote:
Of course I read the article. I have also read many similar articles. Our society has lost touch with were its food comes from. A saddening number of people mainly in North America have no idea what goes into producing their food. The ones that have taken time to look into it are discussed. TRADITIONAL foods have always been naturally raised. Not GMO’s and slathered in pesticides, herbicides and fungicides. We have been TRAINED in the last few generations that this is what normal food is. People that reject this are looked at as odd balls. Why wouldn’t you want to drink pasteurized milk? Why wouldn’t you want to eat a tomato with pig dna in it? Or icecream with fish dna? Hmm well I guess because God created everything good in the first place.
“Orthorexics commonly have rigid rules around eating. 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.”
Quoted from the original article. Hmm one of my family members was highly allergic to gluten and milk. The slightest crumb of gluten would make them very sick. Do you know how hard it is to make sure a kitchen is gluten free? Gluten is VERY sticky. You can wash a counter very carefully, and yet still have gluten contamination. Do you think that it’s an mental disorder for that person to be extremely careful about what they eat? Or to not want to eat at many restaurants because they risk getting ill?
No? Well many people also realize that GMO’s, MSG, and sprays also make them sick. Some reacting quickly others take time to show symptoms. Why would you want to place this toxic junk in your body?
“The issues underlying orthorexia are often the same as anorexia and the two conditions can overlap but orthorexia is very definitely a distinct disorder,” said Philpot. “Those most susceptible are middle-class, well-educated people who read about food scares in the papers, research them on the internet, and have the time and money to source what they believe to be purer alternatives.”
By the articles own admission, they are talking about well educated people. People who take the time to learn what is good and healthy for their bodies.
I’m sorry to hear that you have struggled with mental disorders. No were in my post did I say that mental disorders were not real issues. What I did say was stating that people who reject toxic food from their body’s had a mental disorder was crazy.
Perhaps if you have a problem with Mike Adams you should be taking it up with him. Instead of miss reading other people’s posts and lashing out at people whom you don’t know. Your comments are welcome as long as they are civil, whether they agree or not. Any more rants implying that I do not read what I’m sharing will be removed.
Way to go Kim!
I have found many articles saying things like this. He isn’t the only one who has shown this on the internet.
Many so called “health professionals” or doctors, for lack of a better description, absolutly refuse to even speak to a person if they are taking “herbal” treatments for anything. I have even had a few who refused my family as patients because I add herbal foods to our diets.
Now tell me, just because I prefer sea kelp, and nettles for iron instead of taking otc iron pills, that make us “toss our cookies”, this makes me someone who “doctors” should refuse treatment?
“Traditional foods have always been naturally raised…”
Well… The farmers started using pesticides, herbicides and fertilizers the minute they were invented. They were invented for the farmers.
The farmers have also tried to enhance the crop since the beginning of farming. First it was done by choosing the strongest and most productive plants for seeds, now it’s done by GMO. It’s not the people who produce “traditional foods” who are against GMO. Not many if any of the seeds used in farming today can be found in the same state in nature. Humans have changed most if not all the cultivated plants.
MSG is actually a perfectly natural taste enhancer, not much different from the ordinary table salt, and not especially toxic. Sodium salts can be found in human body, so I doubt anyone is allergic to it. Of course, excess use of anything, whether it is salt or “natural, healthy, living food”, is not good for anyone.
Why would anyone put pig DNA in tomatoes? There is no functional reasoning for doing that. Genetically modifying organisms is not cheap nor easy. People do it for a reason.
BTW, there is no “animal DNA” in plants.
I could say a lot more about all this, but it’s not much relevant to the discussion about orthorexia.
Yes, that is quoted from the original article, but taken out of context. Again, there’s a lot I could say, like that I know how serious food allergies can be and how difficult it is to adjust to it, and other things, but as I think that’s irrelevant, all I say is this:
no-one has said that people avoiding sugar, alcohol, soy and pesticides etc. are mentally ill.
“By the articles own admission, they are talking about well educated people.”
“own admission”… Ms Hill is probably sharing some facts she thinks are relevant to the issue, and according to the doctors most people suffering from orthorexia are well-educated etc. But why do you think it’s significant? Being well-educated doesn’t make you immune to conspiracy theories and overreacting, nor mental disorders. Uneducated people don’t even know what GMO or MSG are, so they wouldn’t be as afraid of the possible consequences and scaring propaganda. Uneducated, poor people don’t much care where they food comes from and whether it’s gene manipulated or not, only that it comes. Beggars can’t be choosers.
Also, people who are 30+ were born in the 70′s. They have been raised through the “let’s move to countryside and be self-sufficient” movement of the late 70′s and early 80′s – might even be children of the movement. They have been raised through Greenpeace, Mobro 4000 and Exxon Waldez, all the “eco-hysteria” and now global warming.
You didn’t say that mental disorders aren’t real issues, but you condone Mike Adams’ conclusion of that having a mental disorder is synonymous to being a mental patient, mentally unstable, weird, sick, abnormal, diseased and crazy. You say “mentally ill”. Neither do you oppose his classification of orthorexia as one of the “new fictitious diseases and disorders” “health experts keep inventing”. In fact, you don’t seem to have any understanding of eating disorders or how they work.
As I have said several times now, the article did not state that “people who reject toxic food from their bodies has a mental disorder”.
I am posting in your blog, because you chose to repost the article without any objections. On the contrary, you repeat his misconception of that someone claims people who try to eat healthy are insane. I have no other option but to think that you agree with him.
I came to this blog because I am interested in homesteads, self-sufficiency, frugality and sustainability. I am not interested of health food fanatism and because you share things like recipes for jams, I wasn’t the least prepared to see anything like Mike Adams’ fanatic rants here.
I don’t think I have misread anything. In Guardian’s article an eating disorder is being described. A health food fanatic chooses to read it to confirm his conspiracy theories and starts screaming, and several people join the mocking and condemning, declare how outraged/saddened/surprised/amused/what-ever they are, and talk about how normal it is to eat healthy and avoid all kinds of unnatural (and natural) additives in food and returning to a more natural, ecological and healthy lifestyle. What do you think I have misread?
I wonder how well you know mss Hill, Philpot and Jade or dr Bratman before you decided to use words like “crazy”, “insane” and “sad and sick” about their words. I wonder how well mr Adams knows them, when he decided to lash out at them – an outlash you are spreading. But,I don’t know you nor mr Adams, and, frankly, right now, I don’t even care to learn to know you any better.
I actually asked if you had read it, because your words didn’t reflect the Guardian’s article, or orthorexia, at all, but only Mike Adams’ opinionated article. If you choose to see that question “a rant implying that you don’t read what you share”, it’s your choice.
Whether you remove my posts or not is also your choice.
@ Ketutar:
Its funny how anything that does not fit with your views is “taken out of context”. As I’ve already said I didn’t say that mental illness were not true. However I do believe that people are way to quick to be labeling and pushing drugs.
There is plenty of information out there from many different sources showing the dangers that have come from tampering with our foods. Natural plant and animal breading is completely different then GMO, being a farmer and coming from a long line of farmers I do understand the difference.
This article is ridiculous! Ridiculous in that it is very biased and taken out of context. No one in the medical world is saying that people who strive to live healthy and watch what they take into their bodies is mentally ill. They are talking aout those who become obsessed with it to a point it interferes with normal functioning. Apparently the person who wrote these articles have never known anyone with an eating disorder. I personally use to struggle with anorexia and bulimia. It consumes your life, momopolizes every thought and keeps one from living. This also happens with people trying to live healthy. Its a compulsion, a fear, a paroia of sorts.
I agree that the medical world is quick to come up with labels for things and to push pills that put money in their pockets. However, nothing is all black or all white. God gave scientists the knowlwedge to create meicine. But like other sins such as pride… Science has failed to ask the question of ” just because we can, does that mean we should?”.
as a medical professional myself and a christian I must say that God calls us to be responsible. You need to ask questions. You need to get second opinions. You need to do research and you need to get good counsel and pray about the decisions you make. To shun modern medicine that could potentially help just because one is on their holistic health and all natural kick would be taking a position of false pride, an ego trip and ignorance. Homeopathy and modern medicine have their advantages and disadvantages. It is not black and white. The two can work togther for good. Also, when it comes to articles like this, make sure you are reading material from a reputable source that gives the truth and not biases. Its called being responsible people!!!!
Wendy, I’m truly sorry for the struggles you’ve had in the past. I think we need to remember no matter how non biased we try to be, when ever we read something we read it from the point of view that we come from. You’ve personally seen one side of the story, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t many people out there who are treated badly by many health care professionals.
I have friends who have been treated badly by dr’s for wanting to make diet/life changes to help health issues, when it made sense to do so.
I’ve had friends and family put on meds they should never have been on, that hurt them badly when what ended up helping them in the end were simple changes.
I’m not against modern medicine when needed. I’ve had surgery, I’ve taken prescription meds when I needed them. I’ve met really good dr’s who care about people and are open to trying to help you find the right option. I’ve also met some really bad dr’s who should not have been practicing. I nearly lost family members because of them.
But in many circles there is a tend to look towards people who boycott GMO “foods”, msg, aspartame etc. as weird. As much as the whole/real food movements have been growing again, some find it weird. Because we’ve been taught for so long there isn’t anything wrong with these things.
Yes I do believe that there are people who take these to an excessive level, but I don’t really think it’s a “new” problem. Many people who are obsessive compulsive have issues with what they can/can’t eat as well.
Sorry for the spelling errors. I am typing this on my blackberry which does not show me what I am writing until after it has been posted!
Truly a sad sad day when something as natural as wanting to consume unadulterated and natural foods becomes a “disease”. Running pell-mell down the road of eating pre-packaged and processed foods (not to mention the unknown of GMO foods) without either knowing or wanting to know the long term effects is — in MY mind — the real disease.
What is the real reason behind labelling a common sense method of living one’s life as a psychological disorder? Control? I am apt to think yes.
The food industry wants us all to follow along as mindless sheep, eating what is laid before us and asking no questions. Kudos to ALL who see through this smokescreen and proudly affirm their lifestyle and eating choices. You are my heroes, my role models. Keep standing up for what you believe in, being the living example of what eating and living responsibly should and can be. My hat is off to you!