Believe it or not, this post has been in my draft bin getting retooled and almost published several times over since last March! But I've always never quite gotten it to publish ready, or whatever sparked the rant died down a bit so it got shelved for another day. But recently the topic of eating disorders was inadvertently brought to the fore by Jimmy Moore in his Jessica Biel spiel. So dust off this one I did ... and still, it sort of languished until something happened the past couple of days over at PaleoHacks. Someone asked about purging -- as in bulimia -- contemplating inducing vomiting to rid themselves of the holiday indulgences. There were several, I thought, constructive responses and no nastiness ensued that I was aware of. Perhaps the initial question was a joke or whatever, but in rather short order the question disappeared entirely! Not closed, but vaporized. Which left a bad taste in my mouth. Not because of anything against the PH people, they are free to run their site by their rules and such, but because there seems to be a pattern I'm seeing in such circles of avoiding the topic of eating disorders altogether. ED ain't paleo. Shhhhhhhhh.....
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