I make a small remark: I am for freedom of worship, including food. I really don’t care what your nutritional choices are, I don’t criticize them, and I think everyone deserves the same respect regardless of how they decide to live their life, because being respectful also means taking into account the essential dignity of others. And so I really have no interest in engaging in the vegan controversy, vegan yes, vegan no. I do not care. I add that I am talking about this news because it is true, of course, because I knew the blogger who is the protagonist when she was a convinced vegan, and because I hang out and read many blogs of people more or less knowledgeable in the nutritional field, but who perhaps have the defect to exchange power for a conversion, and they try to proselytize after filling their blogs with partial studies to support their thesis. Unless then repent of their food choices, say sorry, I made a mistake. And so the network becomes like the love life of an inveterate Don Juan: it’s all full of ex.
Ex paleo, ex vegans, ex fruitarians, ex omnivores and so on.

This is the case of Jordan Younger, famous blogger for a site in which he promoted vegan nutrition, so much so that he is known on the net as the Blonde Vegan . A 25-year-old girl, who suddenly realized that the vegan diet was not for her. After an initial period in which she felt great, Younger began to have serious health problems due to her orthorexia, which is food stiffness: thin hair, depression, bloating, intestinal problems, lack of energy. What are you doing at this point? She does not go back to eating animal proteins, because in the meantime she has become famous. She is a role model for many. Her blog has become one of the most popular in the vegan community.
Inside her the idea that she is doing the right thing for her arises, and the belief, I quote her verbatim words, of wanting to be perfect.

The problem is here, and it is a problem that affects us all. Your food choices, even when they are ethical, are about you: if they make you feel good, there is no problem. If they make you obsess over food in search of the perfect diet, well, it starts to be a disorder called orthorexia . Jordan would bring food from home, leave the house of family and friends to go back to his apartment, to drink the detox juice. When our food choices (of any kind, huh) affect our social life, our mood, and even our health, something is wrong.