When healthy eating is an eating disorder in disguise
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The slippery slope between wellness diets and orthorexia.
By Alexis Conason Psy.D.
As we become more savvy to the fact that diets don’t work, the dieting industry has become more and more sneaky. The most popular fad diets right now are ones that claim to not be a diet at all.
Riding the popularity of the body positivity movement–and the pushback against destructive messaging that thinner is always better–these diets in disguise claim to focus on ‘wellness’ and ‘health’ instead of ‘dieting’ and ‘weight loss’. Their promise: If you just eat this one way, you will be healthy, and also lose weight, of course, if you do it right. These types of eating plans have become increasingly popular as the research around dieting makes it clearer that long-term weight loss isn’t sustainable, and as people with lived experiences of yo-yo dieting have become disillusioned with the classic dieting rhetoric. But the truth is that these wellness plans are no different from any other diet or old school...
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