I've been hearing a lot about this new eating disorder called Orthorexia nervosa. Basically, it means people are eating too healthy. And it doesn't surprise me at all that this is happening.

There's a whole industry built on scaring people into health. Rather than promoting positive health images, many products use the tactic of negativity to make the dollars. If you don't watch out for "stuff" in your meat, you're going to get E. Coli! or Mad Cow disease! Or some other random rare bacterial infection that almost never appears!!!! So eat organic, grassfed, non-homogenized, non cultured, all natural, pampered beef, or else you'll die!!

The same is true with any product that has been "processed." People seem to believe that if something has been processed it is some how bad, evil, disgusting and far too unhealthy for out children.

News flash, processed is just another term for "prepared." Everything is processed, and most of it is processed in a clean sterile environment according to FDA standards.

Finally, the "all natural" tag. Here's another news flash: everything is all natural. It's just what we do with it that deems it "unnatural." But there's no clear guideline as to when something goes from being natural to being unnatural. I guess too much processing, though I couldn't say why.

So, for those food purists, I say beware, you may be just as bad as the anorexics.

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