http://www.mercurynews.com/News/ci_26411514/Orthorexia:-When-healthy-diets-go-too-far

[Anonymous No.5749095]

>Starting in his early 20s, Righini dedicated himself to vegan and raw food diets, thinking they offered a healthy way to recover from years of anorexia and bulimia. But he took those restrictive diets to extremes, agonizing, for example, over fruits and vegetables losing their "life force" each minute after being picked.

>He now says his "twisted thinking" was a symptom of orthorexia, an eating disorder that is increasingly on the radar of health professionals.

>Righini didn't obsess over calorie counts, as he did with anorexia. He pored over ingredient labels -- then rejected food with labels as being too "impure." He found it impossible to eat out at restaurants or other people's homes or to be around people eating fast food. He even tossed out food his mother brought home from a supermarket.

[Anonymous No.5749101]

>>5749095
>vegan
>tattoos

[Anonymous No.5749108]

>>5749095
That is the ugliest male i've ever seen.

[Anonymous No.5749115]

>>5749095
That is a remarkably frail man.

[Anonymous No.5749124]

>>5749095
More like douchebagexia.

[Anonymous No.5749134]

The opposite of that is the fat middle-aged guy who eats anything and everything and dies of heart failure in his 40s

[Anonymous No.5749146]

>>5749134
Heart transplant eta

[Anonymous No.5749148]

>auschwitz body
>chubby face

wat

[Anonymous No.5749153]

>>5749148
He has an avocado stuffed in his cheeks.

[Anonymous No.5749158]

So is this the face of Irish Stew Guy?

[Anonymous No.5749161]

>>5749148
When your organs are failing, your body-fat and skin do weird things.

[Anonymous No.5749180]

>>5749095
>He found it impossible to eat out at restaurants
i don't want to eat at most restaurants just because the food is... bad. especially fast food.

he was just angsty and retarded.

[Anonymous No.5749186]

You haven't seen Mercury yet...

This guy is crackin!

Freddie Mercury
"I don't have no time for no monkey business!"
Living On My Own (1993) REMIX - Freddie Mercury...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=HTdd8QxifbY

[Anonymous No.5749223]

>>5749186
i like it

[Anonymous No.5749235]

>>5749101
You can get vegan friendly tattoos, though most people don't know that it isn't in the first place so don't ask and I remember a series of facebook photos of some guy that got the word VEGAN on his face freaking out when being told that it wasn't.

[Anonymous No.5749247]

>>5749095
I think this may be my first experience seeing a man with anorexia.

[Anonymous No.5749392]

>>5749095
>crazy people use diet as a cover for their mental illness
this is not news, anon.

I used to post on veggieboards and there was this cute veggie chick who was anorexic and would do weird shit and post pics of her body and piss everyone else off. At one point she created another account and acted like she was a different person but was still posting pictures of herself. Just weird as hell

[Anonymous No.5749400]

>>5749247
Wow, me too, actually.

[Anonymous No.5749401]

>>5749108
facial deformities caused by long-term nutritional deficiencies.

>veganism
>not even once

[Anonymous No.5749402]

So basically veganism makes you an ugly dwarf. No thanks. Nigga looks like an Everquest mob

[Anonymous No.5749410]

>>5749401

[Anonymous No.5749522]

>>5749095
>He even tossed out food his mother brought home from a supermarket.

What a wasteful jackass. I bet all those starving people in poor countries don't have all these dumb eating disorders.

[Anonymous No.5749621]

>>5749247
>>5749400
He's manorexic. Also, dem painted fingernails: no surprise that the only man you've ever heard of being manorexic is as gay as a daffodil.

[Anonymous No.5749626]

>>5749095
He cant be true vegan.. just look at how many tattoos he got!

[Anonymous No.5749637]

interesting, i'm bulimic and recently have been making an effort to eat and keep food down outside of binge sessions (historically i've only eaten during binge purge sessions), and i've been kind of neurotic about only eating whole non-processed foods if i'm not puking. it should have occurred to me that this way of thinking was a branch of the whole eating disorder and not a mentally healthy alternative mindset... hm. now it seems almost too obvious. that fixation on purifying one's self is pervasive in orthorexia, anorexia, and bulimia.

[Anonymous No.5749651]

>>5749095
> You wish you could eat without always worrying about food quality.
>It's become beyond your ability to eat just one meal lovingly prepared by someone else and not try to control what is served.
>You're constantly looking for ways that foods are unhealthy for you.
>"Love, joy, play and creativity" take a back seat to following the perfect diet.
>You feel guilt or self-loathing when you stray from your diet.
>You only feel "in control" when you stick to the "correct" diet.
>You put yourself on a "nutritional pedestal," wonder how others can eat the foods they eat, and lecture others about their choices

All of this describes me but I shop at normal grocery stores like Whole Foods (except meat eggs and dairy which I get from more legitimate sources), I eat animal protein a few times a week, and my OHP is 1x my bodyweight, not that I consider myself a superhero but I'm definitely in better shape than most of you, or most of /fit/ for that matter.

I think this article is propaganda against people who have a high standard of eating.

[Anonymous No.5749719]

>people using this as a defense against vegan/vegetarians
It clearly says it's a disorder, not a norm.

[Anonymous No.5749728]

>>5749651
You're still able to function and eat while maintaining a healthy lifestyle.
This person limited their diet not for diet's sake, but to come to a result where they felt justified in not eating. That's where the eating disorder aspect comes in.

He also had a history of eating disorders, which just translated in a different way this time.

[Anonymous No.5749740]

>>5749095
>tldr
Crazy is crazy, OP.
No matter how you classify this dude in offcial diagnosising psychological terms. It's an exercise of semantics.

Fact: Anorexia's origins are in mental health disorders, not lack of education, misinformation about foods, superstitions, or any of the descriptors in your article.
Fact: Most people with one mental disorder have two or three at once. Having just one solitary thing wrong with you is rare, not the norm. The mean, the average, and the majority of people with any mental health diagnosis have several at once.

It is said that all anorexics want control over something, anything. The obsessive behaviors, lack of apetite, the flawed thinking and other things in common? This is secondarily the issue. Having control over others and over your own body is paramount. Who has lack of control? People who have been violated by family, or in a trapped situation of dependence upon them.

Part of the problem with fad diets, is that they require some food obsession what with all the plan rules and requirements, exclusions, special this or that, and therefore never allow a person to focus on other things in their life with balance. They fail when no one can keep up that level of daily thought because they aren't crazy mofos. People that adore fad diets are trading one disorder for a different one. Underlying all that? Crazy.

[Anonymous No.5749745]

>>5749402
5 star post, nigga
i laughed

[Anonymous No.5749746]

>>5749095

Why is his face so puffy?

[Anonymous No.5749747]

>>5749651
>Im better than you
So youre one of those people. I shop at whole foods too because they have quality food there, not because I have to feel "in control" and try to be superior to everyone. Fuck off.

[Anonymous No.5749749]

>>5749747

I don't "try". I am.

I'm off to have my morning run now, but I'll be back later if you require additional help understanding why and in what ways I am better than you.

[Anonymous No.5749792]

>>5749651
Despite what you think, you're actually not.
Unless you happen to think that shopping at more expensive stores and spending more money on the same foods makes you a better person, in which case your actions are insane. Literally all you've done is made yourself poorer than me. And since it is better to be rich than poor, you've actually made yourself worse off than I am. I don't HAVE to worry about the food I eat; it still sustains me nevertheless, and I can get on with the rest oft life.

Ironic, isn't it?

[Anonymous No.5749803]

>>5749235
Tattoos are ugly and vegans find every possible way they can to bring attention to themselves.

[Anonymous No.5749811]

>>5749749
>I don't "try". I am.
>I'm off to have my morning run now, but I'll be back later if you require additional help understanding why and in what ways I am better than you.
i finished my masters in CS at 22. you aren't better than me.

oh i can run two miles in 12 minutes. let me repeat. you really aren't better than me.

[Anonymous No.5749817]

i only eat what i forage kill and grow myself

[Anonymous No.5749821]

>>5749095
that dude is super ugly

[Anonymous No.5749832]

>>5749811
>Talks about his education and not his job

[Anonymous No.5749840]

>>5749095

You guys are assholes, why make fun of him that he's ugly? People don't choose how they look.

[Anonymous No.5749845]

>>5749651
>high standard of eating.
the people on this board are sometimes too much to bear

[Anonymous No.5749848]

>>5749840
Yes they do. He started weird-looking but not ugly per se. Then he made himself ugly. See >>5749410

[Anonymous No.5749850]

>>5749832
i graduated at the start of summer. I'm deciding which job offer to accept, to get my phd, or to move to europe and programming job there. fortunately i worked a lot during my education and graduated relatively debt free so i have the luxury of time.

[Anonymous No.5749854]

>>5749840

Bad facial aesthetics dyel detected.

5x8 standing lip abductions
5x5 bent over jaw lunges
5x5 seated temple pulls
5x8 lying cheek push

[Anonymous No.5749855]

>>5749840
scroll up

[Anonymous No.5749862]

what the fuck

[Anonymous No.5749865]

[Anonymous No.5749866]

>>5749862

[Anonymous No.5749870]

http://www.enjoygram.com/m/796667346386789778_1036160616

[Anonymous No.5749871]

>>5749840
>why make fun of him that he's ugly?
Why not?

But the bigger thing this story shows is that many "good" ideas become ridiculous when carried to extremes. Another example would be the "meat is a good source of protein" thing, which turns you into a hambeast when you overindulge. This guy did just the opposite, and ended up the opposite of a hambeast - a skinny little deformed stick of a man.

But if one leaned toward his premise - that much of the food out there in our affluent industrialized culture is worthy of suspicion - without carrying it to extremes it's reasonable to believe one could derive some health benefit. Most people in affluent nations would benefit from eating less animal products, and more plant based meals. This can be done without becoming a complete control freak about it.

[Anonymous No.5749876]

>>5749862
what the

[Anonymous No.5749877]

Jesus christ all he needs to do is look in a mirror and he could see that he is terrifyingly unhealthy

[Anonymous No.5749879]

>>5749848

No they don't. If you're ugly there's little you can do.

[Anonymous No.5749881]

>>5749840
>People don't choose how they look.
Except this guy choose to eat wrong and he's paying the price. He chose to look fucked up.

[Anonymous No.5749883]

>>5749865

OH MY GOD HE COLORED THE NAILS ON HIS FEET. NOOOOOOOOOO

[Anonymous No.5749886]

>>5749871
>Why not?

Because at the base of it, people don't choose how they look, if one's ugly there not much he or she can do.

Sure this guy is a freak and suffers from mental illnesses but people make fun of him despite of this.

[Anonymous No.5749890]

>>5749886
>Sure this guy is a freak and suffers from mental illnesses but people make fun of him despite of this.
It's pretty basic to make fun of freaks and the mentally ill. It might be considered bad form in real life, but what does it matter on an anonymous imageboard?

[Anonymous No.5749893]

Anti-organic propaganda

[Anonymous No.5749895]

>>5749821
Hardcore vegan:
Not even once.

[Anonymous No.5749899]

>>5749879
You don't have to help your ugly along, you know. Being ugly already is no excuse for willingly deforming yourself.
This weird-looking hobbit/chipmunk cross-breed made his ugly even uglier. And he did it by choice.
I know this one dude that's deformed. Ugly as sin. Like the stuff of nightmares. He had a weird crevice in the middle of his already enormous forehead that looked like a buttcrack. He also had a permanent case of ducklips. We called him 'Magmar.' No one would say how hideous he is if he was pleasant, beeteedubs, but he's just not.

Anyway, Magmar won the lottery. He got plastic surgery with the money. Rather than either fixing his ugly, he chose to elevate it. He got horns surgically implanted to his head and had his teeth filed to be jagged. He went to some other country to do the tooth thing cuz no one else would do it.
Why would you do that? I could understand "love me for me" and not getting plastic surgery in the first place, but to make a bad situation worse? He poured hideouspetrol on an uglyfire.

[Anonymous No.5749920]

>>5749862
>>5749865
He looks like a 40-year-old faggot dying of AIDS.

>>5749840
Because we're normal, and if you look at >>5749410, it's abundantly clear that his ugliness is completely self-inflicted due to his mental illness.
It is normal behavior and completely natural for regular people to shun the mentally ill, retarded and ugly. That is why every culture throughout all of time has done so as a general rule, and why it persists as strong as ever despite all of the social training to the contrary.
Some defect in their genes displays in their appearance or behavior to mark them as unfit. And since humans are drawn to beauty and sociality, the whole process can be described simply as nature self-selecting for genetic fitness so as to keep the human race strong and healthy.

[Anonymous No.5749929]

>>5749811

[Anonymous No.5749951]

>>5749866
>>5749876
to be fair he started slavic

[Anonymous No.5749957]

>>5749871
>>5749881

he'd be ugly no matter how he ate, just look at his face

[Anonymous No.5749964]

>>5749951
Righini is not a Slavic surname. It's Italian.

Specifically, it's Central-Northern, most common in Emilia-Romagna, Tuscany and Lombardy. These three regions together have about three times more occurences of this surname than the other seventeen remaining regions combined.

[Anonymous No.5749966]

>>5749964

Thanks wikipedia!

[Anonymous No.5749970]

>>5749964
>>5749966
>>5749951

See

>>5749870

[Anonymous No.5749976]

>>5749966
Nope.
In Italy, we're fucking batshit about genealogy to the point where we keep a registry of all 'proper' Italian surnames.

Iceland does the same with Icelandic given names rather than surnames since surnames do not really exist in Icelandic culture. They just append "son" and "dóttir" to their mother or father's given name for surnames. Have you any idea how many Thor Magnussons and Magnus Thorssons I met in Iceland?
It's illegal (or maybe not anymore... but it was illegal in 2005 when I was in Iceland) to give a child born in Iceland to Icelandic parents any name that's not on the approved registry of Icelandic names.

[Anonymous No.5749984]

>>5749976

Copy/pasting factoids is copy/pasting factoids whether you got it from wiki or the italian ministry of names.

[Anonymous No.5749997]

>>5749865
>face of a man
>body of a woman
>only eats "pure" foods
>body is impure with tattoos

This guy is like a walking contradiction.

[Anonymous No.5750038]

someone explains to me how the fuck his face is that of a genderbent chipmunk yet it is seated on the top of a walking skeleton

[Anonymous No.5750041]

>>5750038
It's magic, I ain't gotta explain shit.

[Anonymous No.5750063]

>>5749095
Why does he look like a fucking imp? I can't stop laughing.

[Anonymous No.5750073]

it says he started in his early 20s, how old is that thing?

[Anonymous No.5750084]

>>5749862

He's old, man. I mean, he has seen some shit

[Anonymous No.5750087]

>>5749095
>google this guy
>find pictures with his hair done and bright red lipstick
>vegans

[Anonymous No.5750089]

>>5749740
>It is said that all anorexics want control over something, anything. The obsessive behaviors, lack of apetite, the flawed thinking and other things in common? This is secondarily the issue. Having control over others and over your own body is paramount. Who has lack of control? People who have been violated by family, or in a trapped situation of dependence upon them.

you understand the clockwork of mental illness, specifically anorexia here, quite well. yet you insist that underneath the perversion of normal development into disorder lies nothing more than a derogatory "Crazy." i'm sure you're aware that there are therapeutic methods and facilities in place to help remedy the psychological "scripts" of these sufferers (yes, they are sufferers, normal humans with illness on their shoulders, motivating "Crazy" thoughts and behaviors), untangle the glitches in development and send them on their merry ways. yes, i make it sound much simpler than it actually is. but Craziness is not label that accurately describes an internal permanent state. it is not the cornerstone of their existence. they are normal people who CAN be helped.

[Anonymous No.5750094]

>>5750087

If I'm going to have nightmares, the rest of you are going to have nightmares.

Fuck you.

[Anonymous No.5750096]

>>5750073
From the article:
He's 32 now.
His personal low weight was 61 pounds on a 5'7" frame.
He's now working toward getting up to a goal weight of 115.

[Anonymous No.5750108]

>>5750094
this guys problem definitely isnt food

[Anonymous No.5750111]

>>5750094
Vegans man.

Jesus fuck.

[Anonymous No.5750128]

>>5750094
>>5749862
>>5749865

[Anonymous No.5750133]

I think this guy is using his food issues to deal with his gender issues.

[Anonymous No.5750137]

>>5750094

This is uncanny, man, he does resemble a human but it's just a tad too off, man

[Anonymous No.5750143]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_ZIeS25bnk
sideshow freak confirmed

[Anonymous No.5750149]

>>5750143

Why can't people fucking figure out that you don't hold your phone in portrait mode when taking a video, it's really not rocket science turning it 180 degrees

[Anonymous No.5750150]

>>5750149

Oh and now I'm the fucking dolt that wrote 180 degrees which is fucking stupid of me Jesus Christ dude get your brain together

[Anonymous No.5750152]

>>5749148
From that picture it looks like he still purges his food. It makes your glands swell and gives you chipmunk cheeks even if you're emaciated.

[Anonymous No.5750171]

>>5750094
wait I don't understand

So he's a gay vegan but leaves his chin beard unshaved?

why

[Anonymous No.5750177]

>>5749877

Body Dysmorphic Disorder.
Many (though not all) people with eating disorders don't see themselves as they actually are. When he looks in the mirror, he might see Louis Anderson for all we know.

[Anonymous No.5750184]

>>5750171
liberalism

[Anonymous No.5750228]

>>5749134

In other words, /ck/ in a few years

[Anonymous No.5750381]

>>5749749
>bragging on 4chan

You just showed me that you are far worse than me. Your fitness doesnt make you a good person. Not being a flaming faggot to other people does. Sorry your father never taught you any class or how to be a man.

[Anonymous No.5750405]

>>5749811
>>5749749
Yes, but which one of you has the bigger zucchini?

[Anonymous No.5750414]

Only thing i avoid is stevia and sucralose
fucking sucralose tastes like shit
stevia is too damn strong in muh yakult

[Anonymous No.5750964]

>>5749095
THIS IS IT. THEY HAVE FINALLY DONE IT.

THEY LABELED EATING HEALTHY AS A MENTAL ILLNESS.

don't tell me to go back to /pol/ and don't cry when you are forced by the police to eat your daily allowance of fast food and diet soda until your fat and sick.

ron paul you could have stopped it .jpeg

[Anonymous No.5750975]

>>5749803
not all vegans are the same, the media loves to portray them all as tattooed people with mental conditions, not to say that ordinary people with tattoos have any issues, and not to say that there aren't any crazy people with tattoos in the world.

[Anonymous No.5750987]

>>5750964
>implying vegans aren't clearly mentally ill

[Anonymous No.5750992]

>>5750975
Honestly? I've met several dozens of vegans and I can't recall a single one that didn't have tattoos. Even dated one for a short bit, too.

Odd thing, I met four different vegans that all look pretty much alike and each of them worked at different abortion clinics. Which I found ironic. Or hypocritical. Whichever.

[Anonymous No.5750995]

>Be anorexic
>Still can't get rid of fatface
Poor bastard

[Anonymous No.5751018]

>>5750995
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rokurokubi

[Anonymous No.5751049]

>>5750964
He isn't eating healthy.
He has an obsessive eating disorder that's gonna kill him if he doesn't get help.

[Anonymous No.5751267]

>or to be around people eating fast food
I'd love to lock him in a Golden Coral, he would probably die of shock.

[Anonymous No.5751467]

>>5750084

He's only 28

[Anonymous No.5751739]

Is it bad that I think he reminds me of the 10lbs of lettuce lady

[Anonymous No.5751741]

>>5751739
nah, most vegans are mentally retarded

[Anonymous No.5751948]

>>5750964
4/10