Cake over Keto: Episode 19 - I don’t bloody want avocado pudding.
Healthification. See also healthified, healthifying. Adapting a recipe, meal or way of eating to improve its health value; to make it healthier.
Sounds good right? It depends on how you define health. Because if becoming pre-occupied with making food healthier causes stress and anxiety, it ain’t good. If the focus is just to achieve weight loss, it ain’t gonna be good. Especially when there is negligible evidence to prove healthification does what it sets out to. Because we live in a world that is overly weight focused, that is pro healthism, that refuses to understand the impact of weight stigma and the role of the wider determinants of health.
Now if you love adapting your recipes for the feel-good factor or simply love experimenting with food, carry on! But it’s all to easy to get caught up in fads and trends and lose sight of why you’re doing it.
Healthification can be a slippery slope to disordered eating. And not just for me. In this episode I share some of my stories and past efforts to better myself. And what went wrong. I talk about what we did to the poor cauliflower, problematic messaging, privilege, morals and spiralling behaviours. Check out the pick n mix at the end where I recommend some cool reading that won’t make you feel badly about yourself.
Resources
1.Food is not medicine by Dr Joshua Wolrich
2.Gentle Nutrition: A Non-Diet Approach to Healthy Eating by Rachael Hartley.
3. The wider determinants of health (that go beyond eating and exercise) https://goinvo.com/vision/determinants-of-health/
