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Eating disorders are mental health condition. Just because there are a lot of visible "false" cases, it doesn't mean that someone else is not living it for real. Your comment is insensitive

> Eating disorders are mental health condition.

Agreed, and often the root cause is something else in a person’s life (stress, feelings of losing control etc ).

Adding new labels related to food doesn’t do anything to fix the underlying conditions and if anything distracts from them and points the blame at food and physiology, which is not often the root cause of over or under eating.


yes, and many of those root causes are not addressable.

these types of (modern) eating disorders are a product of our current market, and I think that blaming humans for eating wrong due to 'food noise' when many shelves have little else to offer is insensitive victim blaming.

the perpetrators are the people selling poison under false auspices.

we're not blaming people with pica for eating drywall.

We're blaming profiteers for shoveling garbage into the mouth of anyone with a buck while systematically lobbying to maximize garbage advertising and minimize actual food where feasible and simultaneously incentivizing sales groups as much as is profitable -- all the while trying to convince medical professionals and scientists to produce overtly narrow results to support the public consumption through bogus 'science' papers.


> Many shelves have little else to offer

Go into any western supermarket and there are massive aisles of fruit and veg, along with various types of protein.

None of these eating disorders are new. If anything it is far easier to be healthy now.




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