[mediocrejoker]

I don't understand why the general tone of this article is "Did you know disordered healthy eating is possible" but the review of literature found that most of the studies are of poor quality, and furthermore the DSM does not recognize this condition as an eating disorder.

Am I missing something or isn't this putting the cart before the horse?

[cormacrelf]

If you were trying to turn your scientific community around and make them pay attention to an issue when they hadn't been, isn't "Guys this thing is real" the tone you would take? The lit review is used to show that not enough research $ are being poured to get good science, but you can't convince the $ to flow if people don't think it exists. You don't have to prove the disorder exists to a peer-reviewed standard before they let you try to do exactly that. You can start with anecdotes if you want. These folks started with a meta-analysis of risk factors, which looks fine to me.