It's just Gluttony
One of the seven deadly sins Gluttony was first defined by the Egyptian Monk Evagius Ponticus as "anxiety about one's health, or becoming ill". Perversely in some people this anxiety can cause them to to overeat presumably because they are overly afraid of starving. Conversely gluttony can mean for some people that they stopping eating altogether. So Morbid Obesity and Anorexia are pretty much the same thing -Gluttony - an insane reaction to fear of illness or death. They are very much mental disorders as "normal" well balanced people don't react to this fear of illness/death in such an insane way.
Evagius died in 399AD so overeating or anorexia are not new phenomena. Being a little overweight or slightly obsessive about being thin/exercising are just mild versions of the same mental disorder. Taking it to morbid extremes is without doubt a mental disability and needs corrective psychological treatment. The question in this case perhaps ought to be - should insane people be allowed to care for children? People don't like being called insane, but that's what they really are - if you habitually act in an insane way you are by definition insane.
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buffet_the_appetite_slayer ٩(●̮̃•)۶ jacked in to the ICE on, Thu 18 Dec 2014, 16:05,
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How do you define acting in an insane way?
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omnitruncatedkraken from Empire Algol, Thu 18 Dec 2014, 22:21,
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