Is Obsession With Healthy Eating A Psychological Disease?
Fast foods have been a rage for atleast two decades now. With fast food companies burgeoning today and offering palatable meals on a budget, it is hardly a surprise that they attract millions of us world over. Very recently, McDonald’s nationally rolled out a Dollar Breakfast Menu in January, followed by Burger King that tried to dazzle eaters with $1 double cheeseburgers. The irony is that although most people today are usually aware that fast food is not the healthiest or “best” food to eat, they still eat it several times a week or more. An interesting fact is that though a wide section of people belong to the above category, there are the absolute opposite category of people who are addicted to eating nothing other than healthy food- the orthorexics. At a time when everyone from health experts to media and a host of other communication mediums are emphatically urging individuals to increase consumption of healthy foods over fast foods, a few psychiatrists actually believe eating no
