The search for a healthy lifestyle that includes physical activity and good food is a goal that we should all aim for. In fact, our health can depend on it. However, even this healthy and important research hides a dark side to which to pay extreme attention. A healthy lifestyle must never become an obsession.
Orthoresis
The risk you run is in fact falling into a very particular eating disorder: theorthoresis, which can also become orthorexia nervosa. What is it about? Orthorexia is the obsessive need for healthy food. It is one thing to try to eat healthy, which is a very noble goal. Another is the maniacal search for organic, uncontaminated food, the precise origin of which is known, not animal, low-calorie, etc. Those who fall into this eating disorder do not admit any kind of exception to the strict diet that is imposed, even on festive occasions. Even in order not to go overboard, meals are skipped. In fact, when the sick person eats an “unhealthy” food, he immediately feels guilty; as a result he will punish himself and begin to develop a strong fear of getting sick.
What are the risks
A healthy lifestyle must never become an obsession. Orthorexia is particularly dangerous because it hides behind apparently healthy behavior. Moreover, often those suffering from this disorder do it starting from one diet started for good reasons (health, weight loss). But from a diet you often risk moving to a more rigid one and you end up in a whirlwind of obsession.
This problem is obviously psychological, but it has strong repercussions on both the health and social spheres. The greatest risk is obviously to eliminate entire categories of foods because they are considered impure. Doing so will likely not get enough protein, carbohydrates, starches, fiber, etc. The body and the organism will suffer and health will be in danger.
A more hidden side of this eating disorder instead brings problems to the social sphere. In fact, orthorexia also has social isolation among its consequences because the obsession with eating healthy becomes stronger than anything. For this reason, those who are afflicted with it are unlikely to go out for a lunch or dinner with friends. In the long run, others will also avoid inviting a person who is unable to appreciate food and is actually obsessed with it. In addition, those with orthorexia often want to convince others to be equally strict, even becoming quite insistent.
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