Browsing: Nutrition

In the ’90s and early ‘2000s, diet culture manifested through the extremities of anorexia and bulimia, powered by a generation obsessed with being skinny. Today, the conversation has pivoted towards a cleaner, supposedly healthier path—one that is aspirational, guised as wellness, and egged on by algorithm-approved advice. Orthorexia blurs the line between mindful eating and…

The so-called “Mediterranean diet” — rich in vegetables, legumes, olive oil, whole grains and fish — has long been regarded as the global benchmark for healthy eating patterns. Developed from the traditional eating habits of southern Italian communities in the 1950s, the diet gained global recognition after researchers linked it to remarkably low rates of…