I took this clip out of an acticle called Pickey Eaters can bite me by Judith Woods in the Pretoria News.  I think this is important to note for me that I have Multiple Chemical Sensitivity and the closer I can get to Organic foods and chemical-free products in my life the less symptoms I have.  The arcticle goes on to say and I quote-

 "Just when did we all get so hung up about food? As the arguments over food labelling rumble on, society has become polarised as never before. At one end of the spectrum we have rampant obesity, with whole sections of the population gorging themselves to an early grave. On the other, we have anorexics, starving themselves below size zero. And then we have the orthorexics, a growing section of society whose fastidious preoccupation with the purity of their food has led to their being given their own eating disorder category: orthorexia nervosa." "For orthorexics, a fixation with what they eat becomes an all-consuming lifestyle," says Dr Alex Yellowlees, medical director of the Priory Hospital in Glasgow, Scotland. The term orthorexic comes from the Greek ortho, meaning straight and correct, and was first coined in 1996 by Dr Steven Bratman, the American author of Health Food Junkies: Orthorexia Nervosa. Other eating disorders focus on quantity of food, but orthorexics are solely concerned with quality.

I guess I have to say that is kind of me in a nutshell.  Although we do eat "junk food" like burgers, the kids are allowed to eat sweets and treats but understand the importance of a healthy diet to ensure growth and development.  My junk food is the occasional jelly beans once in a while.  I have removed all meat except cold water fish from my diet and all dairy except for the homemade yogurt I make.  I only eat whole grains and nothing that is white, like white sugar of flour. I still serve the kids foods that they like.  The orthorexia is mine and mine alone.  Just some thoughts on a beautiful day in the great southwest.