Orthorexia, when healthy eating becomes pathological

    Orthorexia, when healthy eating becomes pathological

    Becoming addicted to healthy eating and body care can lead to a real disease: orthorexia.

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    Becoming maniacs of eat healthy and care of your body can result in a real disease: theorthorexia.





    In recent years, the media messages that invite you to follow a correct diet and lead a healthy lifestyle have increased at a rapid pace, from the news to wellness columns, from fashion magazines to cooking magazines, and the advice is always the same: move at least 40 minutes a day, consume no less than five meals during the day, avoid fried foods, animal fats and reward fruit and vegetables, control the consumption of meat and dairy products, especially when it comes to aged cheeses, and keep the intake under control of alcohol.

    Well, this behavior, if taken too literally and followed obsessively it can put people's peace of mind and mental health at risk.
    Eating almost exclusively fruit and vegetables, always and strictly renouncing the pleasures of the table, can lead to trough.
    In short, as in all situations - also in this case - too much is good, or as many gluttons like to repeat to justify their passion for hearty foods: "What do I do badly to die healthy?". And in fact they are not all wrong.

    The word orthorexia was coined in 1997 by the Californian doctor, Steven Bratman, in his book Health Food Junkies, in which he spoke of the true obsession of some with healthy food and healthy eating.

    The process leading to orthorexia it mainly concerns women and it always happens in the same way: you start by avoiding fatty foods, such as fried foods, sauces and dips, but also caffeine and coffee, and then also banning carbohydrates, cheeses and milk.
    But this excessive desire to be well can lead to the exact opposite, as he pointed out Lucy Jones, doctor of the British Dietetic Association to the Daily Mail: "this obsession leads to the exclusion of entire categories of foods and therefore increases the risk of serious damage to health such as lack of bone density, stroke, diabetes and heart attacks".



    In short, even in this case the same rule always applies: avoid excesses, eat in the most varied way possible and enjoy life! Maybe with an eye also towards our beloved Earth.

    Verdiana Amorosi

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