Ortorexia obsession with eating healthy

• May 3, 2024

Is a eating disorder that derives from an extreme concern for health. The orthorexia It consists of eating only healthy, natural, organic and hormone-free products.

People with this patalogía experience very marked feelings towards food. For them, a product that contains preservatives or an artificial ingredient is "dangerous" and it has been proven that they feel a strong desire to eat when they feel nervous, excited, happy or guilty.

Through a statement from Institute of Food Sciences of the University of Rome La Sapienza , in Italy, it is made clear that people who suffer orthorexia They focus their lives, almost exclusively on what they eat: "Food for people with orthorexia It is the center of your thoughts and your reason for being. They generally reject meat, fats, foods grown with pesticides or herbicides and those that contain artificial substances. "

However, their obsession with healthy eating goes further and they even worry about the way they prepare their food and the containers in which they cook them. They spend a lot of time planning menus and preparing food.

Every little transgression (eating something out of the "proper") is accompanied by increasingly strong feelings of guilt and frustration. People with this disorder reject everything that is not "natural", which has a very negative effect on the social life of the person. Eating out in a bar or restaurant is unthinkable for them.

Next, we present a report on this food disorder , which was published on the TV Spain news:

According to the Institute of Food Sciences of the University of Rome, people showing signs of orthorexia It is likely to develop other diseases and remains in serious health problems for the future. Being a eating disorder , the road to recovery is very long.

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