Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: non-GMO

  • Clean eating and orthorexia as technologies of the self

    Cristina Hanganu-BreschPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania, USA As numerous social and traditional media outlets and ads constantly remind us, our diets must be “clean”—a vague descriptor whose fuzzy boundaries can fit a plethora of surrogate terms: organic, natural, whole, non-GMO, unprocessed, gluten free, vegan, sugar-free, fat-free, low-carb, raw, unrefined, and so on. The evidence for “clean eating” is…