"Health Food Junkies: Overcoming the Obsession With Healthful Eating" by Steven Bratman, MD contains a quiz useful for screening behavior for this "disorder." The questions indicate a problem if one plans their meals in advance, shops from a list, and spends more than 2 hours per day preparing food. I was taught that planning a menu and shopping from a list was economically responsible and nutritionally sound. And cooking three meals of real food for my large family often takes more than 2 hours per day.

It seems that the option preferred by the peddlers of "orthorexia" is dropping by McDonalds or the gas station for whatever pre-prepared dreck is on the menu, grabbing something and shoving it into one's face as quickly as possible. Yeah, that's healthy!