When Eating Healthily Becomes a Harmful Obsession

Would rather be overweight than super concerned with weight like this. I would rather die in my 70’s than live like this and live an extra 20.

Using bodybuilders as the sample to show nutrient deficiencies doesn’t tell you anything about clean eating, it tells you about bodybuilders. Come on jeff, do you think we’re stupid? Of course the bodybuilders in the sample would’ve been under eating to get shredded. If nutrients don’t come from whole foods where do they come from?

THANK YOU! Orthorexia is a made up dis-ease! Dr. Berg you have changed my life with your tips and videos, I have lost 32 pounds in 13 weeks on keto. My arthritis is practically gone, my IBS is gone, and my blood sugars have stabilized.

“Clean eating” doesn’t mean “bad tasting”. If you’re creative and know your way around foods, it’s easy to fix healthy meals that work with your diet while tasting good at the same time.

I still think it’s good to include SOME junk food once in a while if you want to enjoy yourself but don’t overdue it. Overall, It really comes down to what’s worth it to you depending on how often you want to include those cheat meals and unhealthy snacks. For example, people who compete would rather completely refrain from those empty calories because that could be the difference between winning or losing. However, if you are just trying to lose some weight it may not be worth completely avoiding foods you enjoy. I think moderation is extremely important and making sure you are full and enjoying your meals while maintaining your goals will make you less likely to try and consume excessive amounts of junk food.

I think it applies to everything we do. In fact, I think I’m obsessed with my mental and physical health that I worry continuously after I know something I do or unconsciously did was a bad thing to my body. What if I get a mental illness by just smelling a bit of gas from whatever like heating a pan, gas burning a plastic, and etc. Moreover, I gotta know whether what I’m doing is healthy or unhealthy. I’m checking every action and food because there is always something wrong and biased about what we are customed to do so in our life. in fact, after some research, i get shocked that what i think good turns out to be bad and affecting me for life. “Ah man, I feel sleepy” or “man I’m losing my hair because of my genetic(true but there was a way to slow it down)” or “I feel tired even after 8 hours of sleep(in fact, this hours of sleep shouldn’t be fixed amount)” and I found the reason why and realized that i have been doing or eating so wrong thinking it was good. It maybe helps me get on track how to live healthy knowing what to avoid, but it gets little anxious and worrying. I don’t even know whether I am the weirdo or society is fundamentally unstable. requires me to use a lot of energy to focus on that continuously, and that might be one of the factors that she in the video and I got obsessed with restriction because we are anxious without it and feel like it’s killing me. OMG I’m just f talking poop. little feel better spit out how I think tho.

I think I might be in the early stages… I mean I eat candy, ice cream and whatever sometimes (okay not that much nowadays) but when it comes to “normal” food, I’m really strict about what I’m eating. I hate to eat white pasta (when we have it at school or home and have no options) and I feel anxious if I can’t eat enough vegetables at lunch and dinner. I also don’t like eating things that have added sugar in it

I’m a firm believer that if you eat good healthy food ( you can make plenty of DELICIOUS food that’s healthy but not super duper clean like a dry ass disgusting chicken breast wit salt and pepper only ) and workout at 150% ( meaning after every workout U wanna die ) you’ll be still in top notch shape while enjoying your diet. Trust me I’ve done all kinds of diets, clean diet is made for ppl who compete or have a shoot etc to be as lean as possible. You can’t stick to a clean diet forever.

For example when I bulk up I love to make beef stew or chicken stew, some salads witg dressings and a whole lotta jasmine rice or sushi rice. I literally eat that 3-4 times a day and I gain plenty of good weight and I workout very hard in the gym and my fat gains stay to the minimum. Last year I gained 30 lbs over the winter, at 6’1 210 lbs I was pretty big strong and had 4 pack ( obviously if you’re natural you won’t keep that 6 pack). Do the same with the cutting phase but I try to use less oils and stuff. Still enjoy my food. Trust me it’s possible just make sure you hit the gym HARD AF or whatever sport you’re doing.

Give diet advice when you’re over 35. Anyone under that has no idea what garbage food does to your body. When you’re young your metabolism can chew up the crap you don’t have the self control to stop yourself from eating.

Like most people, when I first got into fitness, it seemed everywhere I turned all I would hear was that I needed to eat cleaner (and cleaner, and cleaner) if I wanted better results. Wanting to be the best version of myself that I could be, I followed this advice for years, obsessing over eating meals at “exactly” the right time and with the “perfect” combination of foods. I started to avoid going out with friends because I might “miss a meal” and even missed out on many special occasions because of my diet. Over the last decade or so, with all the learning I have done, I’ve come to realize that most of this was totally unnecessary and likely holding me back in many ways. Hopefully this video will shed some light on a science-based approach to dieting that will help some of you get on a more balanced and sustainable track. As always, feel free to let me know what you think in the comments! Peace!

Yeah, I do. And it saved me from depression, pmdd and body dysphoria. all my damned cells are badly in love with my so called issue and I couldn’t be happier. orthorexia is bae. praise orthorexia, the best thing I did to myself.

i think the people who nothing about orthorexia and eating disorders should maybe keep their comments to themselves. veganism is and isnt the problem. a vegan diet can be great ONLY IF it is done for health and ethicle reasons. she was doing it as a control thing, a label and a way of restricting certain foods. it doesnt matter what diet it is, its the eating disorder itself. ive been vegan, paleo, keto, vego ect. all are healthy in their own way and you can consume enough calories on all diets. its when it becomes an obsessive habit that it turns bad.

Oh man I’ve got it bad! I believe so much in good food that I raise grass fed beef and grow my own veggies! Guess I need to make my funeral plans now ������

WOW! And there is an association called N E * A exists who claims that!! I would guess people in the Org might have Psychorexia:-)).. LMFAO!!! Thanks Dr. Berg, you’ve been doing great, dont loose the grip ever!

Why is this lady coming to a BBC presentation with a cleavage…?��‍♀️ if only woman had more class ffs, no one wants to see those

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Brown rice is worse than white in some ways because it’s has 80% more arsenic, you can also retrograde type III starches to slow absorbtion. I guess all carbs are bad because they do cause inflammation, but that’s why you have green veggies to counter. But apart from hidden things like that, clean eating I think it’s generally common sense and willpower.

There’s foods I can eat that I know are bad for my body, sugar is one of the worst and causes cancer (feeds malignant and non-malignant tumours 11 x more than it does your native cells) yet I’ll eat most of my simple carbs before and after my training where they’ll be used. I’ll only eat good fats etc. If you tweak and find ‘clean’ food you enjoy, that’s the most important thing otherwise you’ll quickly find it unbearable, you can become depressed, even develop an eating disorder. If you have the willpower and are eating ‘clean’ stuff you enjoy, you’ll have none of those issues. Can still enjoy a treat meal once a week, you’ll feel bloated and probably lethargic afterwards but 1 bad, high calorie meal vs 6 days of ‘clean’ lower calorie meals is good moderation.

Keto (cutting out bread) I mean if it was just bread that’s easily doable, but all carbs but, keto even once fat adapted doesn’t provide strong energy, only low stable energy, so it’s not enjoyable to stay on for over a month.

What I think about this? Here it is: LMAO! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!:D I literally laughed to this. The food companies with those (mental) health “experts” are a huge absurd!

thank you for this video. Sometimes friends says, I am a orthorexic. Because I do’nt eat their cookies and (junk)food. Now I am sure,I am not.

The title is misleading. It’s isn’t the choice of food that is problematic, it is her mental approach to it. If you stress no amount of healthy eating will help you in the end since stress hits lots of organs directly

eat salads with home made dressings, smoothies, barley grass, homemade food, soups, stews, wholewheat bread, cold brews, oatmeal, fresh fruit THIS IS HEALTHY EATING. she has just a weird ocd…trust me I AM VEGAN and that girl is just UNEDUCATED and possibly ignorant.. and FYI being vegan is a lifestyle not a diet, if you consider it a diet then you should call it PLANT BASED

Just became obsessed with ridding that number from my screen so I made comment #667, Lol! Some people are sure obsessed with the success of others. What’s that all about?

I’m a bit confused how can eating “healthy” be an eating disorder? “Oh no I just can’t stop eating things that are good for my body!!!” maybe the word healthy just was misused but having a healthy diet can never be a dissorder. Most people on Instagram doing fitness suffer more from mental problems such as seeing them self as smaller /fatter than they really are. This leads them to over train which if they STOP eating healthy (meaning not refuelling properly) can than lead to physical problems. My point is basically that eating healthy can never be bad by definition you guys really should have used a different word to described there eating habits

Dr Berg, I get your sense of humor on this and I agree with your eating plan 100%. However, this disease is about people struggling with IBS or SIBO who have limited their diet to about 3 foods such as chicken, zucchini and rice in an attempt to reduce their symptoms of bloating, diarrhea etc. They are afraid to eat any FODMAPS at all. Limiting the diet starts out as a way to reduce symptoms but is not a fix of the root cause of their condition. I’m not a Dr but I assume this limited diet can cause malnutrition after a period of time. I know ’cause I’ve been there.

Jeff I do enjoy your videos. The growing body of research around insulin resistance runs counter to the simple calories in calories out approach you take. I’d be interested to see a video from you that looks into it.

Continue from previous post the inside. Its about being healthy inside and outside. About consistency and not just losing weight or gaining muscle without paying attention to the processes required to get there and the effects ( short and long term ) they have on you. Not all things need to be tested through evidence based studies to come to a scientific conclusion. one test or study is not enough to say a theory is scientific truth. We need more metaanalysis studies and more randomized controlled studies that can be reproduced ( most are common sense and some other sources of knowledge or other scientific branches will point you toward the most correct path that serves your best interest and maximizes positive results) I MEAN WOULD YOU POKE A METAL UTENSIL THROUGH AN ELECTRICAL OUTPUT TO TEST IF METAL HAS ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY.( I think not, because we know what will happen )

Also labeling a certain practice or method, lifestyle of eating such as clean eating for ” ORTHOREXIA” is an attempt to give a negative reinforcement and lifestyle shaming on a preventive eating or /excluding certain foods on diet because of certain health conditions such as ( gastritis, IBS, DIVERTICULOSIS ETC) ( THIS SAID PROCESSED FOODS ARE KNOWN TO CAUSE THIS AND MORE AILMENTS). ORTHOREXIA is not an obsession such as ANOREXIA or BULIMIA OR ANXOREXIA NERVOSIA when the end result improves your health and does no harm to self or other directly or indirectly. To misinform and attempt to confuse others, subscribers and the public is malicious and deceitful. Please feel free to comment. Have a Blessed day!:)

I am a retired biochemist. Both life AND death exist in all things. It is the dose that determines the poison, not the thing itself.

As someone who has battled with disordered eating habits, including some that have dipped into the realm of orthorexia, the definition that you’re using here is a little flawed.

Orthorexia isn’t being concerned about your health, it’s about being OBSESSED with everything you put in your body to the point that you’re afraid to eat because it’s not ‘healthy’ enough. There was one day that I found myself wandering around the cafeteria, making laps while trying to decide what to eat, tempted to skip a lunch that I needed because I was afraid nothing was ‘healthy’ enough.

It’s being afraid to eat any sort of carbs because all carbs are bad. But wait, aren’t fats bad too? So I’ll have protein, but wait, excess protein is bad too. Maybe I could just skip this meal. No no, research is showing that fats are good, I should have some meat and veggies. But how can I be sure this meat was well raised? What if they’re lying? What if I’m actually intolerant to these vegetables? I can’t be fully sure I should even be eating this broccoli.

This is what the internal monologue sounds like. It’s also beating yourself up if you make a mistake. It’s fixating on unhealthy items and plunging into a deep sense of defeat and embarrassment if you eat a cookie. The occasional indulgence shouldn’t leave someone feeling guilty for hours, you just move on with your life, but that’s what orthorexia does. It makes you constantly on edge and worried that you are never eating correctly and, ironically, often leads you to deprive yourself of the nutrients your body needs.

Precision nutrition has some pretty cool rules of thumb (or actually the size of your hand) to nutrition. Allows for very flexible eating and variety, easy to follow

Step 1, admitting you have a problem. Hi I’m Bonnie and I’m an orthorexic. Can’t stop eating my meat and veggies and butter. Organic veggies that is. And grass fed beef and kerrigold butter. I need to find a therapist and drugs now. Any suggestions Dr Berg?

LMAO….. HA HA HA HA HA HA…. New female greivance talking point born…. BBC will talk about this for years and blame toxic masculinity for it….

ok but it still does not explain why someone would want to eat oreos which have no health benefits and were designed not to satisfy you but to make you constantly unsatisfied by not allowing you to fulfill your cravings. Anything designed with bliss point in mind in order to suppress the feeling of fullness will eventually crash your all inclusive diet and you will need a hard reset or worse you will become addicted to shit food. Solution is simple eat like our ancestors ate. There were no oreos and no obesity epidemics back then for a reason.

Another downfall of clean eating 100% if one day you slip and binge on everything that has chocolate in it too close to bed, you sleep horribly, and feel hungover the next day, reduces HRV, increase RHR.

The problem y’all have with clean eating is you don’t know how to cook worth a fuck. I’d prolly kill myself if I had to eat plain egg whites, microwaved rice and steamed broccoli.

Our body needs fat. Healthy fats and unhealthy fats don’t have to be completely avoided just limited. Eating to much sugar and salt is bad but if many of us stayed away from soda we would be eating right under the limit.
A balanced diet is one that consists food in moderation. Eat your superfoods like fruits nuts vegetables and tea but don’t eat only super food. Our body needs meat carbs dairy gluten (unless ur gluten free) and occasional refined grains and carbs aren’t bad

People eat organic to avoid gmos and pesticides. Because are they bad?

An example of orthorexia is:

1. Not wanting to eat an occasional treat like ice cream, cake, pie, pizza…Just don’t eat it everyday

2. Being specific about what types of food are healthy.

3. Substituting taste for nutritional value.

4. Exercising too much like a routine

5. Not making time for other things or people or sing up so much time on your diet

6. Not finding happiness or contentment in your body and health

7. Worrying about cooking and heat

8. Feeling always tired nauseous and weak

You have got to be f-kn kidding me! �� those a-holes are making people feel guilty for taking care of their bodies?! Who’s the crazy one now?! ��������

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Ya know I found this video because I was researching orthorexia because I have an exchange student who has multiple times tried to say that he doesn’t want the (very healthy) food that we make because he wants to go on an all protein diet to get down to 6% body fat and so he has to have his chicken boiled instead of how we make it. He also HAS to go to the gym every day, often right around dinner time so that he’s not sitting down to dinner with the rest of us, even on days when he has sporting activities. I’m concerned for him because I think his obsession is hurting him, so I’m disappointed that someone is using their platform to deny the existence of an entire eating disorder.

Ok I think some things need to be cleared up hear. The one true fact behind losing weight is being on a calorie deficit…go ahead tell me I’m wrong. Oh you can’t because most people don’t even understand what that means (if you do then I’m not talking about you am I?) A calorie deficit is simply eating less. I know you like sitting around munching on chips and crackers but that is your problem in a nut shell. And by the way it’s easy for you younger people to talk about weight lose, just wait till you get older and see how much harder it is. Eat clean, trust me it’s better, and by clean I mean less fast food and more veggies and fruits.

Ok. I’m gonna eat cardboard boxes and stay consistent to my cardboard boxes diet. According to Jeff this diet is adequate. I just gotta make sure I’m consistent.

For someone like me who has experienced orthorexia I can tell you that it more serious that it seems. It’s not just about wanting to eat healthy. With this disorder you are ALWAYS thinking about food where it fucks up your mental health. I mean if you want to eat healthier good for you but you wouldn’t want to spend forty five minutes trying to find the healthiest snack in the store. It’s such a waste of time like I could’ve spent those forty five minutes doing something better with my life instead trying to find the healthiest snack like it’s just not worth it.

i never like eating super clean but foods which are good for me and a meal that tastes good whilst being more on the healthy side and home cooked. junk food i simply don’t eat it. some people go from eating grilled chicken boiled broccoli and boiled rice to pizza one extreme to another in the name of a cheat meal

My experience with “Clean Eating” was very bad especially if I lowered carbs. Migraines, nausea, depression, changes in vision, and lack of energy. The key is get a lot of health foods but don’t get crazy OCD with it. If some pizza comes eat it… if tacos come eat them ect… The biggest mistake is going into the over-eating territory aka continuing to eat after you are full or eating high sugary foods every meal.

Every notion changes every month… I can’t take this anymore
Next month: eat one pound of chocolate per day. Then next month: Breaking news, chicken has zero protein!

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I’ve already lost 20 pounds in a month just by eating whatever the fuck I wanted only difference I made was I eat twice a day and fast for about 15 hours

Orthrexia? I guess I’ll have to stop having only one healthy Keto meal a day with 22 hours of Intermittent Fasting…to resume 3 high carb meals/day with snacks so that I can regain the 82 pounds I lost this past year so that I can restart my heart medications…and regain my osteoarthritis in all my joints, and my gout, and my acid reflux, and my depression. Yeah, I don’t know what I was thinking when I decided to get healthy on Keto and IF. How dumb am I? How dumb are we all?

I used to have homophobia, xenophobia, and now I also have sickaphobia and deficiency phobia, I should be diagnosed and given drug right away, so that pharmaceuticals can create more jobs for society

damn homie.. just eat a salad and some chicken breast.. and go get some D.. Its good for you… these 1st world problems are getting outta control

Mate what I just look at calories and eat it but for breakfast

Normally porridge with with a banana and nuts bc protein but I lost my period

I eat protein carbs fats and I never cut out on any things but I am pescetarian

But I got better and I actually was like this

But this really helps and I love this video I decided to help myself and tysm for this

It seems like she doesn’t have orthorexia, but full on anorexia. Just by seeing her get anxious from ordering a latte and thinking she doesn’t deserve it, sounds A LOT like anorexia.

Last but not least the statement or quote in your video ” NO FOOD THAT YOU EAT INDEPENDENT OF THE AMOUNT OR THE FREQUENCY THAT YOU CONSUME IT, HAS A MEASUREABLE NEGATIVE EFFECT ON YOU” is incorrect, invalid and deceitful as well:) What happened to ” EVERYTHING IN MODERATION ” OR “SOMETHINGS IN MODERATION”. This first statement does not apply to anyone or any food. Just eat meats everyday for breakfast lunch and dinner and we know by studies that you will increase your risk of colon and other cancers at a very young age. ( high meat consumption is one culprit of cancer among others):) done for now: )

I skimmed through some of the studies, and realized that, even though they do reference “eating disorder”, they mostly use the term to reference disorders such as anorexia, bulimia; the ones that tend to cause people to try and avoid food/caloric intake.

I was honestly expecting at least a mention of Binge Eating Disorder, Compulsive Eating and other disorders that cause people to overeat. I guess that if overeating disorders were to be considered, they’d probably also come to the conclusion that diets based on foods commonly considered dirty (think high-calorie fast food, sugars) are possibly an even more common cause for eating disorders than clean eating.

Only way to find out, though, would be to put together a formal experiment, with high enough numbers to be statistically significant.

Orthorexia is not just someone eating healthy it is the obsession that occurs when someone takes it to extremes where they limit foods because they think it’s bad, they become so hyper focused on this they start believing that almost all foods are bad and they limit down to 10 food choices or less. It’s not because promoters are promoting healthy eating, that is a positive step, it’s when someone is struggling with their own issues and they start coping by controlling their diet so much and disguise it as eating healthy when in reality they are starving themselves. This reporting was vague and irresponsible, they should have defined Orthorexia better, explained the signs and symptoms.

When that whale Tess Holiday appears on magazines, no one holds her slightly responsible for promoting bad diets, but they’ll talk about other people promoting the desire for a healthy diet like it’s a bad thng

I wish there was this kinda coverage for laziness, overeating, obesity, etc. Yes, people can take their fitness obsession a little too far, but a. it doesn’t affect a lot of people, and b. it’s definitely the lesser evil of the 2 extremes.

I hate that ABC continually uses the word “restrict” to describe veganism. I understand why they say it but it just makes it clear they don’t care enough to do research on the lifestyle. Honestly, I felt that I was more restricted when I wasn’t vegan. I never gave nasty looking vegetables or dishes a try because I would rather have that cheesy hamburger, something I knew would taste amazing so why bother with other things (of course this is just my experience). The only reason veganism feels restricting is because animal products are literally EVERYWHERE. We grow up with ads shoved in our faces about fast foods, microwavable lasagnas, etc. Once I turned vegan, however, I was surprised about how many options there are. Vegan replacements everywhere. But I can’t eat vegan meats and cheeses every day because that isn’t healthy either. I had to be more open about eating foreign looking foods (that were accidentally vegan or “on purpose” vegan) or “bland” vegetables like spinach, carrots. My thinking when I first started is, if I’m already “restricting” things out of my diet, I should allow other (foreign to me) vegan options into my diet. And it ended up opening up my options more than it ever was before. I hope I explained myself.

I use to have orthorexia and I ended losing a lot of weight. I was like her I still a picky eater but I am now eating a little bit of junk food.

I think I have orthorexia. I’m suffering from skin problems, I used to have breakouts. I stop seafood, pork, fried food, tofu, dairy, chocolate and any food which contain added sugar/sweetener or food which will spike my blood sugar and stimulates my sebaceous glands. I have my breakfast and lunch fixed, I eat the same everyday except for dinner. I look at each and every ingredient whenever I eat something I’m not sure with what is it made of. I will Google the food if it’s not in my ‘safe food list’. I feel very guilty and depress whenever I eat something ‘unsafe’. I will blame myself if I ate something ‘unsafe’, and it causes breakouts on the skin.

Your constantly complaining about how fat and unhealthy we all are, then after people are successfully manipulated people into becoming “fit and healthy” you then start complaining about how people are to fit, to healthy, to obsessed, the BBC is like a person who is never satisfied and just has to complain constantly about everything, even when it’s a good thing

This is a positive development for society. I grew up in the 90s where being a ‘lad’ meant drinking far too much and a beer belly was a bit of a laugh. So glad that culture is going. Vive la sante!