Vegan is disordered eating?

mamaclose

I'm a mental health professional and a vegan. Eating a vegan diet is not a sign of disorder, but people with disordered eating can use a vegan diet to further their disorders.

^^Me too!!

redraidergirl2009

No it's not an eating disorder. Sounds like that person needs to go back to school. I'm a class away from my masters so I can tell you that veganism is not a disorder and not thought of as one by the general mental healthcare community. A disorder becomes a problem when it becomes detrimental to your way of life. There are only two major eating disorders. Then there is Eating Disorder Not Otherwise Specified and this includes people that have obsessions with food that harm them or their way of life. Veganism, if anything improves your way of life for most people. These disorders may be further broken down in the next edition but I don't see veganism being counted as one.

carld256

As I posted in another thread, it's funny that when people talk about "otherexia" or some other made up eating disorder they always point at vegans. No one gives a second thought to low-carbers we eating nothing but meat, dairy, and eggs. I know one guy who wouldn't even suck on a breath mint because it had "a carb," just one.

And people think vegans have disordered eating.

/rolls eyes