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When food obsession destroys culinary joy

I love food and cooking and eating with people but I cannot do it without calculating calories in my head and it is ruining every meal.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The compulsive quantification of nourishment can strip eating of its pleasure, connection, and meaning.

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