Article about picky eaters and healthy eaters recognized

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http://health.yahoo.net/experts/dayinhe ... -they-real

Orthorexia sounds like a condition that would be common in the autistic pop.

Yea, and also picky eating because of the textures and tastes of certain foods.

Yeah, I'm funny about this. I will eat vegetables, and I will eat pasta, but I won't eat them mixed together. I have to have vegetables separate from all my other food. Leafy vegetables aren't much of a problem, but other vegetables are. Mixing food is a bit of an issue.

I don't think I have it though, I have a preference for bland food like pizza and plain pasta. (There are certian sauces that I don't like), I WILL eat other foods. It's just that my two favourite foods are bland food.

Also, my parents usually make meals for me so I don't really get to choose my food at home. When at restaurants, I like to order something I am familiar with because I don't really want to have to ask them to make something else if I don't like it so I try most new food at home because I feel more comfortable telling my parents that I don't like a food than a strange waitress. If I get food that I don't like in a restaurant, I often just order another drink so I can wash the food down with it.

I find that many foods have an "acquired taste" so it takes a while for me to adapt to them. I also won't eat any food that looks or smells bad.

I also don't like fancy food, like the kind you would get at an expensive restaurant.

I have never found trying new foods all that exciting, I will do it though, it's just like going to a class that you don't find extremely boring or hard, but not all that interesting either. Most people will still go, they won't get excited about it.

Also, I am not quite an adult yet, I'm 16 and it doesn't interfere with my life at all. As I said, I WILL do it, I just don't enjoy it. My menu isn't as limited as the women in the article either. I will eat pretty much any fruit, most vegetables, all types of cheese, all types of bread, soy protein (I'm vegetarian).

Drinks have never been a problem. I will basically drink anything other than Guava juice and alcoholic drinks.

I used to be SUCH a picky eater growing up-I pretty much lived on homemade hamburgers,tuna fish,carrot and broccoli with ranch dressing,chocolate,yogurt,bread and fruit.I would kind of swish and chew things really intensely in the side of my mouth to make sure they were "safe"-a habit I am still trying to break!

I only like one type of cookies- chocolate chip.

ONLY those things, eh? Poor neurotic thing must be skin and bones.

A fixation on food that poses health risks is by definition NOT A FIXATION ON HEALTHY EATING- it is a generalized compulsion-based eating disorder not otherwise specified.

How am I clinically-ill if the only potatoes I like are mashed, I don't eat bleu cheese dressing, abhor peanut butter, and refuse to eat entrees without a liberal dosing of hot sauce? EATING WHAT YOU LIKE AND NOT WHAT YOU DON'T IS NOT A MENTAL DISORDER, and doesn't inherently pose even physical health problems.
I hate yellow. Despise the color. I look horrible in it. Guess I'm OCD, or perhaps a Xanthophobe.

This crap's a joke- it trivializes the real eating disorders which pose very real, life-threatening risks.

My husband thinks I am a picky eater but I'm not. Just because I eat certain foods doesn't make me picky or else I wouldn't eat what people make. I ate almost anything my mom made growing up. But hey I also love trying new foods when I go eat out but as a kid I always had the same thing.

I pretty much eat mac and cheese or other pasta because I love it. It's my favorite. I also want to eat sweets because I love them, I also love chocolate. But I don't eat many sweets since it's so unhealthy.

I didn't fit the picky eating profile anyway in the article. Sure as a kid I only wanted cheese pizza, plain hamburgers, nothing on my pasta. With macaroni, it be cheese only. With spaghetti, it be tomato sauce only. Maybe I was a little picky since I refused others.

I'm picky about my pasta, but otherwise, I'm fine. (As long as the food isn't meat, I'm vegetarian).

It's kind of strange because I like vegetables, but I don't like them in pasta. People are always like "But they are sooooooooo good for you", when I tell them that I don't eat pasta with vegetables. I like vegetables, I just don't like them on my pasta.