Health, it was you who raised the issue of credentials and when I asked you what you do for a living you responded with “I’m in the Health/Medical field.”
All right then. It’s a safe bet we’ve eliminated physician and nurse, two very honorable professions, or you would have said that. So what is it? The last time someone said to me “I’m in health care,” it turned out to be a nursing home administrator.
By the way, isn’t it amazing how when one person uses Google to make a point online another person can actually go ahead and dig deeper into it?
Today I happened to speak to a colleague of Dr. Walsh in the same department at Columbia. He told me that the classifications of eating disorders in the forthcoming Fifth Edition of the “Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders” published by the American Psychiatric Association has not yet been settled and that there is much discussion and debate going on.
While it is settled that anorexia and bulimia are agreed to be disorders, many are of the opinion that repeatedly eating to excess such that the patient is classified as Morbidly Obese is also a disorder.
For the life of me, I do not understand why you are emphasizing that “overeating is not a disorder.” If G-d forbid the DSM-V eventually doesn’t classify it as such, how many unhealthy people in our community will continue their “fressing ways” to the inevitable complications of cardiovascular disease, diabetes and other terrible problems?
I am sure you don’t want that, hence I don’t understand your point.