When healthy eating stops feeling healthy
Clean, pure, whole, the language changes, the anxiety doesn't.
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Orthorexia isn't in the DSM yet, but clinicians see it every day. It's the eating pattern where 'wellness' has quietly become a cage, where a meal off-plan produces real anxiety, and social eating disappears.
The tell: it's not about weight, it's about purity. A green juice feels moral. A birthday cake feels like a failure.
Recovery looks like reintroducing 'imperfect' foods, softening the rules, and remembering that food is meant to nourish a whole life, not become the whole life.
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- Écrit et relu par
- Angelina Mehtälä, praticienne en nutrition, fondatrice d'Anti-Diet Club
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