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Have we started fearing food?

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What you can expect in this blog? This blog about food does not dive into the technicalities of macros or micronutrients. Instead, it focuses on something equally important the mindset behind our growing fear of food , and how we now choose “healthy food” more out of anxiety than understanding. This blog also talks about the growing craze of fad diets and how we unknowingly punish ourselves in the name of health. I’ve touched upon how easy it is to fall for overwhelming, often contradictory content on social media about dieting and “eating right.” What is all this fuzz about dieting?  Personally, I feel that most of us didn’t start dieting to be healthy but  we started because we were scared .  At some point, eating stopped being instinctive and started feeling like a moral decision. Have we forgotten the times when we ate without worrying about calories?  Without stressing over  how many grams  we were eating, or whether that food was “good” or “bad” for e...