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Be Healthy: But Don’t Overdo It (Yes, It Is Possible To Be TOO Healthy) — 20 Comments

  1. this is happening to me at the moment didn’t realize it can lead to unhealthy but I feel better eating healthy I see benefits, but it is making me feel abit depressed having to.keep out a look out but seeing the benefits it does makes me want to carry on. I still eat some unhealthy food at times but I am cutting it out more and more each day …

    • Hello B,
      When you say this is happening to me, do you mean orthorexia?
      It’s very commendable to want to improve your diet and eat healthily, especially if you’re starting to see the benefits.
      But don’t push it so far that it makes you depressed to have to check everything out.
      Food is also about pleasure: pleasure to cook, to eat, to discover new tastes, to enjoy company around a good meal. Sometimes, it might mean that you need to relax your rules a bit but that’s not the end of the world if, most of the time you stick to eating healthily.
      I hope you find a balance that suits you.
      Best wishes
      Isabelle

  2. Hi Isabelle,
    I too have gone overboard with my food and drink choices and it is too limiting. Sometimes I eat pizza or other foods that aren’t so great and then I will balance it out later by having a garden salad or a green smoothie.

  3. Yes! Good post. I know too many people that are at the point of psychotic about eating healthy. They spend money they do not have on this obsession, as meanwhile other things of importance go by the wayside. One of the most vital attributes that we can have is moderation/balance in everything that we do. Thanks for drawing attention to this important topic.

    • I couldn’t agree more – moderation is a real watchword for me. The problems always start when we introduce excess – even things that should be good for you will hurt you if taken to extremes…

  4. Wow! I never thought an illness like this existed. Such obsessions could not only hurt your health but potentially relationships one is in. I feel sad for people in this situation.

    • Me neither but when Isabelle pointed it out to me it does make sense. I have seen a few obsessive health nuts who look borderline unhealthy to me (a little like Everton’s point below but I’m talking about anyone too obsessed with health, not just veggies). The great news for me is that I am highly unlikely to ever suffer from this particular disease πŸ˜‰

  5. This kind of reminds me of how far I took my eating habits a few years ago. I tried to cut out saturated fats, salt and sugar mostly but I ended up cutting out more foods than I was expecting. Eventually I found my list of things I could eat getting smaller and smaller. I didn’t realize that it could make you sicker in the end though. I’m glad I didn’t do it for too long.

  6. Great, I often say the sight of a vegiterian is no advert for being a vegiterian. Also issue when take drinking alot of water people messing up potassium levels.

    • ah – possibly a little controversial with that one my friend. I know some very fit looking vegetarians, the point perhaps is that a lot of vegetarians just cut out a lot of the nutrients they would be getting if they weren’t vegetarians and don’t replace them with anything.

      That being said, I also know a LOT of ex-vegetarians and more cases of women who became meat eaters during and following pregnancy and then never went back to being vegetarian.

      Interesting point.

      • I think my comment and my own resent personal experience supports your argument. I have high cholesterol(of course more complex than we thought light and heavy cholesterol has muddied the water also looks like the scientist are learning more about this every day invalidating what knew yesterday) and big blood pressure. We tend to see things in black and white. So Salt is bad lets not eat any, sugar is bad, lets not eat any, fats are bad lets not any. We forget that we do need these ‘nutrients’. I suspect that many vegetarian are not critical enough to make sure week by week they have correct nutrients in their ‘limited’ diet. (limited because it for sure does not include that super food, meat).

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