I had never heard of that term but now that I know what it is, I think you’re right. There are so many very strong opinions about diet here and very little quality data to back it up (because for the most part it doesn’t exist).

"There are so many very strong opinions about diet"

This is true for almost every group including scientists studying nutrition, it changes frequently.

Eat the shark before it eats you.

What? I guess you haven't seen normal people then. Compared to HN, normies seem to have "orthorexia" up to ridiculous levels. Hardly a day goes by without hearing a genpop opinion on what I or someone else should eat, or why $whatever-I-just-looked-at will give me cancer - all of it being regurgitated garbage from the magazines and news sites they read, without them realizing that those sources are not science, but entertainment.

(My gripe is less with individuals, who are inconsiderate - it's primarily with aforementioned entertainment sources that purposefully twist and misrepresent actual research and play on people's fears.)

On a weekly basis someone tells me one of the following things: I'm not eating enough (I'm a healthy weight) , I'm eating too much junk food and not getting enough "nutrients" (they never seem to know which nutrients exactly, but they're sure I'm missing some), I spend too much time sitting down and that's why my back hurts, or I'm standing up too much and thats why my leg hurts. Of course they're well meaning, but I think it's funny to say that tech people are too health obsessed. Sleep obsessed, maybe.

Orthorexia is a virtue signal in the 10%-ers.

Not having orthorexia among such a group would be like farting in public in less fortunate groups.

Diet and the human body in general is a complex system the HN users want to understand, hack, optimize, perfect.

Or they just go with the defaults for their social circles and salary brackets...

(Which includes people into Goop and such -- hardly the "hackers" that want to analyze and hack the human body).

The last person I would trust to "hack" or "optimise" the human body is an orange website user.

Give something to hack to geeks...