this is a good read for people who may think this is “healthy”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/wellbeing/health-advice/orthorexia-the-clean-eating-obsession-that-makes-you-dangerously/
Well, no surprise that being pathologically obsessive and eliminating everything but raw vegetables could be bad for a person. One guy wouldn’t eat anything that had been harvested from the ground more than 15 minutes before. That’s just silly.
(i) This is not a “trend” - it is a mental disorder;
(ii) blown out of proportion by yet another sensationalist article trying to sell it as “Armageddon cometh”; AND
(iii) this is not a "good read for people who may think this is “healthy” because these people will not be stopped from damaging their bodies by an article - they need treatment.
That is not clean eating that is nutty eating
@tom1944, those people probably don’t eat nuts. 
bunsenburner…it is a good read for those who may listen to a cousins friend from the gym who know a guy who did it.
there are a fairly large number of people who go with stuff like that.
If someone becomes a bit more educated by reading something I am all for it. I was curious and read it. My personal takeaway from the article was that getting your blood tested yearly for deficiencies is a good idea.
I thought I was dying last year. Turns out it was a severe vit D deficiency. I consider myself educated in nutrition but I totally missed linking my symptoms to lack of vitamin D.
Maybe the headline will draw in readers.
I wish I had this problem. 
I love horror stories about fad diets, you can look around you and easily see how little of a problem THAT Is. The chance of humans sticking to a basic healthy diet and a proper weight is pretty limited. Eating disorders are mental health issues.
alfonisa…eating disorders are probably genetic. not the disorder itself but what leads to it. depression, anxiety, etc…are genetic…and have triggers and they manifest themselves in different ways. off topic…to many people in this country(and probably even more in other parts of the world) think mental health issues are a character flaw, lack of discipline, bad upbringing etc… and many people do not get proper care because of the stigma or lack of understanding.