Tom:
>> If we eat raw food because we are in fear of, or hate, other foods, because
>> they are cooked, contain protein, or promote mucus, then we don't have a
>> diet - we have an eating disorder (or an ED in progress).

Ellie Rotunno <[log in to unmask]>:
>It is however possible to recognize that cooked food contains toxins,
>like AGE's, which are in themselves harmful, stimulatory, and will set up
>cravings. It is possible to avoid cooked food, not out of hate, but
>because one recognizes that they are not heallthy. This does not
>constitute an eating disorder.

Tom:
I agree with you, and thanks for clarifying my point. Fear of cooked
food constitutes an eating disorder when the fear is pathological
and obsessive. Simply avoiding cooked food because you find that raw
works better for you, or because certain types of cooked food are not so
good for you, is not an eating disorder.

Regards,
Tom Billings
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