Photographing Food May Be Sign of Mental Illness…

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I think this only applies to those who obsessively photograph the food they eat and share it on Facebook. Commercial food photographers need not worry…

Sure people who photograph everything they eat can be annoying, but are they also mentally ill? According to a Canadian mental health expert, taking lots of pictures of food can indicate health or mental problems. CBC reports that Dr. Valerie Taylor gave a presentation called “Food Fetish: Society’s Complicated Relationship with Food” at the Canadian Obesity Summit in Vancouver last week in which she argued that “For some people who have the predisposition for weight behaviours” food photography and social media activity can anticipate “unhealthy weight disorders.”

via Expert: Photographing Food May Be Sign of Mental Illness – Photography Wire – Eater National.