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Jewish World Review
August 8, 2013/ 2 Elul, 5773
When eating too healthy becomes a problem
By
Dave Ross
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Are you ready for the latest potential eating disorder?
Orthorexia.
According to Carrie Dennett, a grad student of Nutritional Sciences at the University of Washington and author of the blog NutritionByCarrie.com, more and more people are paying attention to eating healthy, which is fine, unless it becomes an obsession.
Yes, healthy eating CAN become an unhealthy obsession, (as every fan of "Portlandia" knows.)
She writes that Orthorexia can lead to diets so strict that they interfere with social relationships and may become dangerously low in calories and essential nutrients.
What's strange is that people with the disorder are not focused on the amount of food, but on the quality.
But Carrie's blog quotes a psychiatrist at The Moore Center for Eating Disorders in Bellevue as warning that if diets like vegetarian, vegan, gluten-free, raw food and paleo diets get too strict, you can get so afraid when you eat that you don't eat enough.
It's one thing to generally try to eat organic or eat whole grains instead of refined grains. It's another to be so fixated on avoiding pesticides, GMOs or white flour that your diet becomes inflexible.
In addition, according to the critics of this approach, Orthorexics often use their diet to achieve a feeling of perfection, purity, or superiority.
And while Orthorexia is not officially recognized as an eating disorder yet, taken too far it can lead to something more serious ... like when you insist on visiting the farm where your organic chicken was raised before you eat it, just like they did on "Portlandia." But I don't think that would ever actually happen.
Bottom line, you should try not to base your identity on how you eat.
Sometimes you just have to eat. Sometimes you just have to go out and buy a deluxe burger and embrace it. Then eat it.
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Comment by clicking here. Dave Ross hosts the Morning News on Seattle's KIRO Radio weekdays from 5-9 a.m. He spends his down time tinkering with electronic projects, writing novelty songs, shopping at thrift stores, and playing squash. As an avid hiker, he's earned the title Energizer Bunny from his friends; while they all stop to see stuff along the trail, Dave keeps going and going and going. He enjoys traveling internationally for work and pleasure with memorable stops in Baghdad, Qatar, Israel, Prague, Germany (to cover the Berlin Wall), China, Soviet Union, Niger, Senegal, and Iran.
You can listen to his daily column in audio format by clicking here.
Previously:
• 08/07/13 The Die Phone
• 08/06/13 Can't afford a doctor or medicine? There's always the Placebo App
• 08/05/13 Car prowlers taught lesson with call to mom
© 2013, Dave Ross
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