Eating healthy is awesome. It’s not only great for you, in makes you feel great once you get into the routine.
Even then, we occasionally slip. Or more likely, allow ourselves a “cheat” day or meal in order to treat ourselves or stay sane, as the case may be. That’s perfectly normal.
For some people, however, the focus on healthy eating can become an obsession with severe consequences. It can even progress into an eating disorder called orthorexia.
What is that, exactly? From Authority Nutrition:
- Orthorexia, or orthorexia nervosa, is an eating disorder that involves an unhealthy obsession with healthy eating.
- Unlike other eating disorders, orthorexia mostly revolves around food quality, not quantity. Unlike with anorexia or bulimia, people with orthorexia are rarely focused on losing weight.
- Instead, they have an extreme fixation with the “purity” of their foods, as well as an obsession with the benefits of healthy eating.
What happens with this mindset? The obsession leads to unrealistic notions of food quality, which leads to malnutrition. Instead of eating healthy, you barely eat. Orthorexia is beginning to be recognized by the medical community, and it could be a manifestation of general obsessive-compulsive tendencies and related traits.
So, the answer to the question posed in the headline is this … no, you cannot eat too healthy. But you can become fixated to the point where you don’t eat enough to power your body.
Food is fuel. You should absolutely put the best fuel available into your body, but no fuel kills the engine.
There’s way more detail here:
Orthorexia: When Healthy Eating Becomes a Disorder
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