Food and Fitness Guide

Too much of a good thing is bad.

There’s a fine line line between eating health and obsessing over the matter. Add to this the “paranoia” regarding eating particular foods and advising them to totally deleting them out of the kitchen for good, and you have orthorexia. No, it’s not yet part of the manual for psychiatrists, but an alternative physician, Dr. Steven Bratman, phrased it in one of his books.

“Once you’ve reached a certain point, the rigidity demanded by orthorexia makes it truly difficult for you to eat anywhere but at home,” Dr. Bratman writes. “Most restaurants won’t serve the right foods. … Even your friends inexplicably fail to cater to your personal preferences (or, as you see it, they willfully choose to ignore the one right way of eating).”

It’s a condition when people focus too much of their time thinking about the virtue of what they eat rather than if it tastes good or not. Not only can they be irritating to the people around them, but also they pose a danger to themselves by pushing themselves to disordered eating.

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