IS IT POSSIBLE TO BE TOO HEALTH CONSCIOUS?

Here is what the experts have to say:
Author, Steven Bratman MD, identified an obsession with healthy food as a form of eating disorder. Eating healthily is great, he says, but when it gets out of control, check with your doctor. You might be suffering from what Bratman calls Orthorexia Nervosa.

Orthorexia Nervosa it an exaggeration of a positive development. The process is simple: you feel that your eating habits aren't good enough, so you consult a dietitian, read a few books and magazine articles, you start changing your diet and slowly you begin to see how effective it is. You feel better, your weight reaches its optimal level, your skin looks great... you are in the pound seat!

For most people the story ends here. Their only worry is maintaining their healthy eating habits. If, however, you suffer from Orthorexia Nervosa, your diet will become a mission - you will avoid restaurants that aren't sparklingly clean, refuse to wear certain types of material, boil your water even before you bath... boy, do you have a problem!

This pathology started when modern society turned its back on its old,
sometimes unhealthy life-habits. And it isn't limited to healthy food. Asbestos is no longer used in building materials, governments allow smoke-free zones to those who do not wish to partake in communal puffing, media wars are waged against crops that are genetically modified.

Too much of a good thing is not good no matter how beneficial it is at the beginning. The key to healthy living is finding the balance in all things, even your healthy eating and exercise regime. Life should be an experience, not a sentence.