Orthorexia is not a scam, it's not a way to say you are sick if you eat healthy and that there is something wrong with reading labels.

Orthorexia is not recognized as a mental disorder in any of the medical manuals, such as the ICD-10[3] or the DSM-IV,[4] neither is it part of the proposed revision of this manual, the DSM-5.

There is a huge difference between eating healthy to live and to live to eat healthy.

Follow the non-logic on this, if you can: Eating "good" foods will cause malnutrition!
No not eating "good" foods in itself will not make you malnourished but if you are so occupied that your food is "right" you can end up eating to little to get proper nourishment.

Here is an interesting list.
http://calorielab.com/news/2007/09/06/are-you-orthrexic-is-anyone/

Eating healthy doesn't mean that you have a problem, but if it means that you spend hours every day fretting over your food and if you avoid spending time with friends because you are occupied with thinking about health food and concerned that they can't get you "proper" food. In short if thinking about healthy eating dictates every part of your life, you might have a problem.

I'm a vegan but I don't have this disorder, sure I have rules about what I eat and what I don't eat, but it's not the focus of my life.

It may truly be wild exaggerations and satires of Mike Adams (sort of an Archie Bunker type), but the fact of the matter is, this is really NO joking matter; this is VERY SERIOUS BUSINESS, especially when one sees his or her own family and friends suffer and die untimely deaths due to their gluttony, and from eating "garbage food" loaded with pesticides, additives, poisonous colorings, gasses, hormones, pus and blood in dairy products, radiation, antibiotics and God only knows what else.... We should NOT think it is funny when one even jokes about such serious matters; much like making heroes on the screen out of the bad guys. What will our children think and who will they side with?
Joy Ray
Rayofjoy@aol.com

The problem is that Mike Adams (the author of "Choosing Healthy Foods Now Called a Mental Disorder") falsely accused the whole psychiatric profession (that's a LOT of people!) of considering anyone (ie., everyone; again, a LOT of people) eating healthy foods as "mentally diseased".

Mike's accusation is what is ludicrous. His sweeping generality was the satire. In reality, mental health professionals generally recommend, respect and support eating a healthy diet as part of a happy, healthy lifestyle. The American Dietetic Association approves of vegan diet. The literature is packed with research that proves the benefits of a properly balanced vegan diet.

Healthy, active people enjoying their lives in constructive ways while eating selectively can *NOT* be labelled as orthorexic. That diagnosis is only considered when a person's dietary choices are causing the individual more harm than good.

For example, sadly, there are a few (very few) documented cases of individuals who actually died or been demonstrating symptoms of starvation because they couldn't bring themselves to eat anything they considered less than perfect. *THAT* is orthorexia.

Many of Mike's articles are valuable & insightful, so goodness only knows why he built his commentary on the exaggerations and fabrications in The Guardian article. I have to wonder what good he thought he was doing to "cry wolf" like that.