The News in Food (and my lunch)

Dirty Secrets of Health Food (Telegraph.co.uk) Orthorexia, an unhealthy obsession with eating healthy food, is becoming quite prominent as more and more confusing information enters the media about what we are supposed to eat. This article chronicles the hardships of eating with friends who have become impossible to please. We see it in Hollywood, we see it in our friends, we see it in ourselves…

In fact… I just ran out to get lunch in Manhattan, and it was almost impossible. I want to eat healthy! The more information we have the more difficult it is. Even as we realize that less processed, less chemicalized food is what we are looking for (“real” food), it’s almost impossible to find! I ended up getting Mexican food, but then couldn’t stop thinking about where the cheese had come from… it wasn’t sustainable- that I can be sure, but was it full of rBGH? Ugghhh. Probably. What is it doing in my body? Chipotle is around the corner from my work, but I happen to turn right and not left, and I didn’t even think of it. I do still have reservations about Chipotle too (they are so big), but at least they are trying. I am also trying to eat the healthiest that I can, purchasing organic, local sustainable as often as I can, bringing my lunch to work almost everyday- or eating at the one place that I can get simple veggies, tofu and brown rice.

This leads us back to buying food at the farmers market. Cooking at home. Growing food in your backyard. Patronizing restaurants who adhere to sustainable standards. Voting with our fork.

I can see how easy it is to get obsessed with our food in this world where we don’t understand our food. Food and nutrition have become confusing, but I think that the answers are simple. We need to eat real food. I did eat my lunch and I enjoyed it. I know that I do the best that I can- and I do it quite often.