I have already talked to you about detox diets, clean eating and healthy eating : in particular, if everyone has an idea of ​​a healthy diet and detox diets, the clean diet or clean eating is a concept that has not yet developed in Italy. , and which, above all abroad, has instead produced phenomena that have become editorial and media cases, such as Deliciously Ella. At the same time, however, the ranks of repentant former clean eaters are expanding: women, above all, who from the idea of ​​the clean diet and the detox diet have come to develop an eating disorder known as orthorexia ( source ) .

In fact, both the concept of a detox diet and that of a clean diet are terms that assume the existence of the wrong foods: foods from which you need to detoxify. In fact, the clean diet is literally “clean” eating which therefore presupposes that there is dirty eating. The risk is that people, rather than eat better, end up demonizing certain foods.
Foods that can cause inflammation can poison us in some way.

It is one thing to try to follow a healthy diet in brief: eat more fruit and vegetables, limit the consumption of industrial products and carve out more time to cook something genuine, or pay a little more attention to the labels. Another healthy thing is to limit so-called junk food (another misnomer: junk food) to one or two occasions a week.
But these healthy measures are normal when they don’t push us to view food as an enemy , and us as detectives on the hunt for healthy food.

In fact, people who are slaves to healthy eating end up by:
– ​​limiting the outings and the company of people who do not eat in the same way
– end up eliminating too many foods without even consulting their doctor (nor being sure that they have made the right checks to detect intolerances)
– end up developing an obsession with food, with consequent problems of stress and unhappiness.

In short: it is one thing to try to eat a healthy diet, try to moderate yourself, have a better lifestyle.
Another is to get stiff and make yourself sick of it.