Doctors once thought only kids were picky eaters, and that they would grow out of it. Now, however, a taskforce studying how to categorize eating disorders for the new version of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, due out in 2013, is considering recognizing for the first time a disorder to be called “selective eating” that could apply to adults as well as children. The DSM, a common psychiatric reference book, would currently lump picky eaters into a classification of eating disorder “not otherwise specified,” a catchall category for people who don’t meet the criteria for a major disorder.
No Age Limit on Picky Eating – WSJ.com
So I’ve written a lot about the medical industry “inventing” diseases so that the medical industry can also “discover” new or existing drugs to treat these new diseases (see the history of Wellbutrin– it started out as an antidepressant and then made its way to an anti-smoking drug). Here’s a disease in the making. In about a year, I’ll link to this post because Big Pharma has found a drug to treat this new disease. Mark my words…