Is concentrating too much on healthy eating sabotaging our health?

The title poses what probably seems like an easy question. Is concentrating too much on healthy eating sabotaging our health, including weight loss attempts? We're guessing you'd probably like to say no, and we don't blame you for that. But we're also guessing that you sense the actual answer is, somehow, yes.

According to a study recently published in the Journal of Health Psychology, because we as Americans have been so barraged by information about nutrients and vitamins, we care more about those nutrients, vitamins and supplements than we do about eating the healthy whole foods that contain nutrients and vitamins. As study author Jonathon P. Schuldt says:

The whole industry is built on this idea that there are studies out there linking vitamin C to healthy outcomes, and therefore you should just eat vitamin C. What we lose there is the fact that we should probably be eating oranges. One cannot live off of vitamin C alone.