Article: Adult Picky Eaters Now Recognized as Having a Disor

Adult Picky Eaters Now Recognized as Having a Disorder
http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20101129/sc_livescience/adultpickyeatersnowrecognizedashavingadisorder

I'm definitely not a picky eater, but I found this interesting, so I thought I'd share.

The first few paragraphs of the article:

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He's 63 years old, but Bob Krause admits he still eats "a 4-year-old's dream diet."

Krause likes peanut butter, crackers, grilled cheese sandwiches, chocolate milk and little else. More adventurous meals look like "a plate of barf," he told LiveScience.

"If I could snap my fingers and change, I would," he said, explaining his pickiness helped ruin two marriages, limited his career options and makes most social occasions sources of stress.

Researchers think Krause could be one of thousands suffering from a previously unrecognized illness: selective eating disorder, more commonly known as very picky eating. Instead of having a couple foods they'd rather avoid, the way most of us do, people with selective eating disorder feel there are very few foods they are even capable of eating.

"People who are picky aren't doing this just to be stubborn," said eating researcher Nancy Zucker of Duke University, explaining that extremely picky eaters experience food differently than the rest of us.