We recently linked When eating healthy turns obsessive.
We have periodically posted here about eating obsessions, whether overeating, anorexia, "organic" preoccupations, people whose approach to food verges on the medicinal, vegetarianism, food fads and food quackery, etc. We shrinks call it all "orality."
As we have often said here, anybody in the Western World would need to make a full-time effort to avoid an adequate diet. Furthermore, medical science has yet to come up with a consensus on what a "healthy diet" really is. Eskimos thrive on seal fat and sea gull meat. Despite what Mrs. Obama or anybody else tells you, it's all Old Wives Tales. We all would enjoy believing that we can control Fate in some way by one sort of magic or another. Eat fruit? Why? It's pure carbs and just makes you fat. Spend good money on vitamins? Why? It's all Magical Thinking.
During most of human history, any food was scarce and costly to obtain. We have tons of good food, cheap. If anything, too much and too tasty, and we don't have to do drudge labor in the fields all day to get some of it.
I have seen plenty of sturdy young athletes grow up on nothing but Cheerios, macaroni and cheese, and peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. Eat what you like, and thank God we have food choices.
Where's my Big Mac? I've been waiting here two minutes already.
