Is it possible to eat too healthily?


By AGENCY
The worry with orthorexia comes when people cut out certain necessary food groups from their diet, feel overly guilty for deviating from their diet or become too obsessed with with only eating healthy foods. — dpa

Orthorexics are people who force themselves to eat healthy food and avoid anything with additives, saturated fats or added sugar.

It sounds like a good thing – until it isn’t.

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