25/11/2025
100 cal doesn’t make a food healthy.
I listened to the radio the other day in complete bewilderment when a producer flippantly named a new product “healthy“ because it only had 70 cal per serve. It was a bag of chips.
This post isn’t about targeting particular foods and whether they’re good for you or not (you know that ain’t not my jam!) but rather how a simplistic message of THIS = HEALTHY is wrong and dangerous.
When you start to view foods in a ‘less than’ way it completely devalues what food provides both nutritionally and emotionally and it sets up a pretty fragile relationship with yourself and with food.
Then it becomes a competition - can I go with less? How little can I eat? It’s a slippery slope from here….
Disordered food and dieting thoughts don’t have to plague you all day, and it is possible to heal from this way of thinking when you seek the right help and support from an eating disorder professional.