At what point does caring about eating healthy food and being well cross the line into orthorexia - an eating disorder characterized by food obsession?
In this episode, I try to delineate the very muddy waters of what's "normal" when it comes to caring about health and what's problematic.
It's difficult to pull this apart in a culture where restriction, control, moderation, and all-or-nothing thinking prevail BUT it's clear that caring about health shouldn't cause malnutrition, crush your social life or isolate you.
There's nothing healthy about being obsessed with health - and that's what we're gonna talk about today!
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