According to this article eating Paleo (close cousin of Keto) is lumped in with laxatives and binge eating.
Since when did eating real unprocessed real food and cutting out things like wheat make you mentality ill? Crap like this annoys me because it stops people from finding health.
To be a mental illness, it must cause impairment. Homosexuality was dropped from the list of mental illnesses because, aside from social attitudes, it didn’t cause any problems with a person’s ability to work, to be part of a relationship, to be a good parent and a good spouse, or any other aspect of life.
I’m guessing since the research was funded by companies that produce the crap.
Perhaps. “Junk Food” is, arguably, one of the “major food groups” that this article advises against cutting out entirely.
Food Groups are essentialism. They’re all paraphyletic at best. I mean, consider the riddle of the tomato. It’s a vegetable… it’s a fruit… it’s a berry… it’s a nightshade.
Now, might the inner conflict between wanting to eat a potato and knowing that the starchy below ground parts of nightshades are going to ruin your health cause disordered eating? Yeah, it might, but so might eating the potato. I empathize with Richard’s story about how he was so very, very hungry yet stuffed to the gills because of how his body reacted to carbohydrates. I’ve been there.
Ultimately, we know what food brings us health and vitality and which food doesn’t. As long as we eat in a way consistent with our long-term goals, we are mentally healthy by definition.
Oof - this quote is a doozy. I would barely know where to start if I were debating this fellow:
Speaking out today on World Eating Disorder Day, Associate Professor Warren Ward said the only people who recommended getting rid of entire food groups were those with no qualifications.
“We have had a lot of casualties from fad diets, including the paleo diet,” he said.
“Any fad diet associated with cutting out a major food group or inadequate nutrition can trigger anorexia and other eating disorders.
“There is a significant risk of causing an eating disorder if people cut out major food groups such as carbs, or fats, or sugar or dairy or protein.”
[Yes, folks if you follow a fad diet and cut out a major food group like sugar, that’s dangerous.]
Yeah, sugar as a major food group. Gotta love it. Even the dairy thing - last time I checked it was pretty much common knowledge that many people are lactose intolerant. And that picture of the bored chick eating a salad was really offensive. From the tone of some of these articles, it would seem the target audience is 5, maybe six years old. There are so many gullible people out there, I worry about all this misinformation.
uBlock Origin warns against my opening this site, with the privacy filter triggered by tags.news.com.au^ which is fine by me. There’s no shortage of misleading stories out there.
Hey my local news released this BS story not too long ago:
Media is the effing WORST.
Well, these diets could cause what might be considered an eating disorder called Orthorexia nervosa which is define as an obsession with eating foods that one considers healthy. I’m guessing it doesn’t mean like normally avoiding foods these people would consider unhealthy. But, obsessively avoiding them in a mentally unhealthy way. I feel like one would probably present with other obsessions before or with it though.
A high protein diet did mess up my skin. Low protein doesn’t seem to be that bad.
As one who’s struggled a lot with this over my life, I can tell you from a dietary standpoint for most people dairy is the biggest contributor. Most people with acne, you drop the dairy and their issues go away entirely.
Now I just moderate how much dairy I consume - just HWC in my coffee and cheese in my salads and a few recipes - but I make sure not to “over-do” it any given day - if I don’t I can usually see the result in the mirror in a day or two. 
Yeah, it had to be made up for people that couldn’t stop being so extreme about their food.