Episode 49 - Dietary Over-regulation and the Pursuit of Purity

Preoccupation and obsession with food–orthorexia-can take the form of the quest for health and purity, with rigid rules about food categories, such as the need for all-organic ingredients or omitting food groups such as dairy, sugar, and gluten in the absence of identified physiological intolerances. This overall effort to banish anxiety can take the form of an implicit bargain, a strong need for ego control, elitism, specific community values, and banishing shadow by projecting it onto “bad” foods.