Today's “normal" diet consists primarily of highly processed, non-nutritive, industrially produced food. That’s because the best decisions for the food conglomerates often are the worst ones for our health.

Nourishing yourself healthfully, then, is not the default; it’s the exception. And it often requires a conscientious approach that, in a culture where Diet Coke is considered a health food, might be called "extreme..."

...Orthorexia, more often than not, is a non-medical term popularized by people who feel guilty that they are’t eating better and need a name to call people who try harder.

It’s really OK to like green beans better than french fries, to avoid chemical-laden drinks such as Ensure (which contains more than 40 artificial ingredients) and to wonder why ketchup and peanut butter have added high-fructose corn syrup.