When passion for healthy food and lifestyle turns into unhealthy obsession

Añadido: 2026-05-07

[00:00:01]Food is my love language. If you haven't figured that out already, that's maybe [music] why you're here.

[00:00:07]Especially heritage, homegrown, or home raised foods, and cooking from scratch, all that good stuff. And I do love learning about [music] properties of foods and um different health facts.

[00:00:23]But, >> [music] >> I think we have seen the pendulum swing just a little bit too far from 90s packaged TV dinners into >> [music] >> something that borders an actual clinical condition. And that is going to be the topic of this video while I spend a day doing just some normal cooking and food prepping for my family. Starting here with prepping my beloved sweet potatoes. If you've been following, you know that I love these sweet potatoes.

[00:00:55]Sometimes I bake them and keep them pre-baked in the fridge. Sometimes I just dice them up and put them in a container that I can easily cook them and add them to a meal.

[00:01:03]They're one of my favorite foods. I'm also baking some sourdough Pullman bread. I wanted to get this all done quickly though, so I did add in some active dry yeast. And that's something you can do. You can just throw yeast into sourdough bread. Of course, most of us know that long fermenting has some great health benefits, but people have been eating unleavened bread products for ever and ever. So, it's not a bad thing if it's something is not sourdough either. Unless you have really bad gut problems and you have found that that's just what you need in any given situation. And um this conversation as I'm making this bread just goes right along with the topic of the day. So, orthorexia nervosa. We've all heard of anorexia nervosa. Anorexia, not wanting to eat at all, fear of eating in general. But orthorexia is more of an obsession with eating only pure and clean and healthy foods. Um and I don't take that word obsession lightly because you can be very interested and passionate about this topic, which is an awesome thing, but not obsessed. We can't conflate passion with obsession. They are two different things. They're related. One can bleed into the other, but it's okay to have passions. Um where they can become harmful is like I said, when they turn into obsessions that are actually causing us more stress than the harmful effect of the thing itself.

[00:02:35]Right? So, as we're talking here, I am blending up some more eggs because we are back at it freeze drying eggs. I just have all the eggs rolling in. We did that on the last video. And you know, I just keep that freeze dryer going with whatever I've got, whatever I have extra of, it's going in the freeze dryer.

[00:02:54]But anyway, stress is so harmful to the body. And stress can come and not just the body, the body, mind, soul. Stress is um so harmful. That's the root of illness, root of disease. Stress can come in many shapes and forms. And over the last decade especially, I think a lot of us have been learning about the stress the body undergoes when we expose ourselves to or we eat things that are not natural and not healthy. It is a stress on the body.

[00:03:30]We've We've all been learning about that and trying to implement changes in our lives uh to reduce that stress. But when it becomes an obsession, that is arguably, potentially, an even greater stress on the body than maybe just eating the cookie or having the piece of cake that was store-bought or whatever. And I don't mean to sound dismissive toward people who have actual food intolerances that produce really severe uh acute symptoms.

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[00:06:49]I think that the obsession [music] can come in a few forms, but the two forms that I see most [music] often are like anecdotal projection >> [music] >> and then overwhelm and shutdown. So, the anecdotal projection would be that somebody [music] learns something about a food or a health fact and they implement that in their life. They have a very positive result. And then they obsess with that, maybe that diet or that food, thinking that that food is terrible or that that food's the answer to everything. So, like let me give an example. Maybe somebody cuts out carbs and they lose a lot of weight initially.

[00:07:32]And I'm not going to go into like my thoughts on long-term low-carb diets or whatever.

[00:07:37]Let's say they have some really, really great results initially. And then they believe that all carbs are bad for all people in all situations. And they just kind of become obsessed with it. They're really What What's really happening there is that they have a fear of carbs.

[00:07:51]Um of one of the major food groups and lots of foods that people historically have eaten for a long time. Um And then on the flip side, you can have somebody who maybe adds in a whole food like raw milk or something and they have a wonderful experience. So, they have a positive anecdote and they project that on everybody. So, everybody else who's maybe having gut problems or any kind of problem, if they just would drink the raw milk, then they would be fine. All their problems would go away. They become I I don't think that doesn't fall under like orthorexia nervosa. Um maybe I don't know. Maybe it does, but you see that a lot with people They get like their pet foods, whether it's raw milk or sourdough or whatever it is. And then they think that every single person, if they would just do it right. Maybe, you know, they're not doing raw milk right and that's why they can't tolerate it or whatever. Maybe they're not doing sourdough right and that's why they can't tolerate it. Like they just can't accept that for some people in some situations, in some contexts, that food is actually not beneficial. Um these things, like I said, they just become an obsession and it kind of becomes a person's entire personality. And I know that if you have a problem differentiating like closely related concepts, that you might think that I'm being hypocritical here because like I said, I'm very passionate about these things. I love learning about these things.

[00:09:12]But um you just really see so so many people that are afraid to even live their life.

[00:09:18]And I think it's especially affecting women because we do bear the responsibility of feeding our families, bearing children, and trying to stay healthy through it all. So, it is really, really important. But you see women so afraid of food and of living that they just They don't They don't live their life. They're living in chronic fear. And I believe that they're creating more stress for themselves than they are um actually benefiting their health. And that can come in a lot of manifest in a lot of different ways from maybe spending money that you don't have on certain foods or health items or whatever.

[00:09:55]Um to not to going places and not having community. Literally, like not having any friends or community because nobody eats the exact way that you do. Um, or has the exact health views that you do.

[00:10:09]So, you end up being very isolated and lonely, but maybe you don't even recognize it because you're doing it in the name of a good thing, which is health. And so, you kind of just become bitter toward everybody and society in general, which I totally get you. Like, it can be very easy to be frustrated with our modern society because in some ways it is it it is frustrating and it's really hard to be healthy these days.

[00:10:32]But, by the same token, we're also so very blessed that we don't have to live in hunger or food insecurity or food scarcity. Um, every single person has access to food. Like, anybody can even if, you know, you use some kind of government assistance, like, you can get food. Everybody can get food, so there's a lot to be grateful for. And I think that gets missed. We don't focus on that. So, quick break from the little rant to tell you what else I'm making here. So, I started off with these Pullman loaves, finished them by midday, and went ahead and, um, made some peanut butter and jelly sandwiches with fresh bread that came out of the oven. I I always try to make big batches of stuff while I'm dirtying dishes anyway, might as well do that and stock the freezer if I have the chance. I got some cabbage cut up for sauerkraut. Always try to keep that going. I am out of sauerkraut right now because, funny story, I had some prepped and sweating, which sweating is where you add salt to the cabbage after you've cut it up to let it draw out the brine, uh, the liquid in the cabbage, and I set it aside and I actually had to run into town, and my husband thought that it was food scraps for the chickens, so he threw it out, and he felt so bad. I'm like, it's cabbage. It's fine. It's really no big deal. But, I I That was a few weeks ago, and I'm just now getting around to making a new batch of sauerkraut. So, I've been without my beloved sauerkraut, but I got it going. And then, I actually, for dinner, which I'm preparing right now, I had, uh, roast made, just slow roasted roast beef with some seasonings and some onions. Shredded that up for open-face roast beef using the, um, homemade bread and some cheese, cutting up some fruit here, and then made cabbage and onions, creamed cabbage and onions on the side. That's another food that people are scared of is like cruciferous foods and vegetables. And they say, "Oh, well, you know, plants, especially plants that grow above ground, they have defense mechanisms and to keep, um, bugs and stuff from eating them, and so, they're going to defend themselves against you and hurt your body."

[00:12:24]Well, not if you cook them.

[00:12:26]Cook them. Ferment them. Process them in a natural way that they're supposed to be processed cuz people have been doing that for all of time. They've been eating the foods.

[00:12:36]Anyway, here's our little dinner plate from the night. And this video is coming to a close, so I will have to wrap up my little talk on food fear, [music] if you want to call it just more layman's terms.

[00:12:49]But, I am working on something if where I'm going to dive into this much deeper along with so many other topics around nutrition, fitness, and general health, specifically geared toward women. I am creating a course. I'll have more details [music] for you on that in the weeks to come, so be looking for that [music] if that's something you're interested in. In the meantime, I don't know if I already said this, but you can find the recipe for fermenting sauerkraut and making >> [music] >> sourdough Pullman loaf on my blog, hopefulhearthblog.com, or in the description. Till then, thank you guys for watching. See y'all next week.