Bronwyn O’Neill discusses the fine line between healthy eating and becoming obsessive about food and fitness arguing that, although it is important to stay fit and healthy, we often aspire to unrealistic goals.
It’s when eating healthily becomes such an obsession that it impacts you psychologically that it becomes unhealthy. While anorexia is the eating disorder where you have an intense fear of gaining weight, orthorexia is the eating disorder where you fear eating unhealthy foods.