New eating disorders hit the market

Two new eating disorders have entered the mill joining classics like overeating, bulimia, and anorexia. The two eating disorders in question are adult picky eating and orthorexia or excessive healthy eating. Adult picky eating is considered so when taken to the extreme of eating to the point that the person can only eat a dozen or so different foods and orthorexia is when the person eats so excessively healthy that they loose an extreme amount of weight. One woman diagnosed took it so far that she would only eat raw cauliflower and broccoli and lost nearly 60 pounds because of it.

Neither of these disorders is listed as an official eating disorder and so treatment is not covered by insurance. However, each has a number of serious side affects including extreme wight loss or weight gain and malnutrition.

I personally don't think adult picky eating can be considered a disorder. I am a picky eater but I can always find something to eat. It's not a disorder to have certain tastes. If yoy don't like spinach you shouldn't have to eat it. Listing these things as a disorder only makes people feel bad about themselves and is probably adding to the issues we face in society.

http://health.yahoo.net/experts/dayinhealth/new-eating-disorders-are-they-real