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Orthorexia nervosa
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airiefairieWhat is healthy and what is not so healthy, and what could even be dangerous for our health? And, what could we even allow ourselves to eat at this point? Not much, people with orthorexia would say.
It all starts with the desire to be more conscious and responsible about what we put into our body. But then people with this condition start to design their own rules about what is healthy and what isn't. With time, these requirements become ever stricter, and more and more food products get relegated from the personal menu. The list of "unhealthy" foods grows on and on.
Thus, orthorexia is developed gradually. At first, the person is more focused on what they are eating, they follow strict guidelines. For example, if someone has decided to lose weight, they change their eating regime. Others just decide to pay more attention to what they eat, maybe they have heard about all the scandals with bad food and low quality products.
With time, this behaviour could become an obsession. And the fixation on healthy eating could become a burden that enslaves everything else the person does.
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It all starts with the desire to be more conscious and responsible about what we put into our body. But then people with this condition start to design their own rules about what is healthy and what isn't. With time, these requirements become ever stricter, and more and more food products get relegated from the personal menu. The list of "unhealthy" foods grows on and on.
Thus, orthorexia is developed gradually. At first, the person is more focused on what they are eating, they follow strict guidelines. For example, if someone has decided to lose weight, they change their eating regime. Others just decide to pay more attention to what they eat, maybe they have heard about all the scandals with bad food and low quality products.
With time, this behaviour could become an obsession. And the fixation on healthy eating could become a burden that enslaves everything else the person does.
( Read more... )
