Parents, families and others in the community can inquire without any further
preparation than their faith in their children and their desire to have high quality schools.
These include obsessive focus on food choice, planning, purchase,
preparation, and consumption; food regarded primarily as source of health rather
than pleasure; distress or disgust when in proximity to prohibited foods; exaggerated
faith that inclusion or elimination of particular kinds of food can prevent or cure disease or affect daily well - being; periodic shifts in dietary beliefs while other processes persist unchanged; moral judgment of others based on dietary choices; body image distortion around sense of physical «impurity» rather
than weight; persistent belief that dietary practices are health - promoting despite evidence of malnutrition.