Obsession By Healthy Food: The Ortorexia
Ortorexia is the pathological obsession to only consume healthy food.
This obsession can get to transform itself into disease if meats do not
interfere; necessary fish or other foods and nutritious deficiencies take
place. Ortorexia is not more than a nutritional upheaval like anorexy
and bulimia in which there is obsession to eat only healthy foods.
Ortorexia is more and more frequent in the western societies, has like
precedents the obsession by the diets, the cult to the body and the fear
to the food dealt with artificial products and decide to pass hunger to
eat "impure" foods, like fats or meat in whose process they
have taken part pesticides or herbicides or any other artificial substance
that could affect its organism.
The prejudice takes to those who suffers this upheaval to let even go
to restaurants and to houses of relatives and friends by fear to which
they offer to them to eat. When they extend a level like this one, the
culpability feeling even takes to stricter diets and the uninformed one.
Ortorexia did not seem to mean a problem, but it is it when the person
does not do the possible thing to replace the foods that she rejects by
that they contribute nutritious complements such to him. Then, the strong
restrictions that prevail produce deficiencies of vitamins, minerals and
proteins, done by which they begin to suffer hypotension (arterial pressure
loss) and osteoporosis,
among other sufferings.
Until medical and investigating years ago they contemplated the possibility
of considering this problem like upheaval related to the feeding, since
they not long ago did with anorexy and bulimia. The signs and characteristic
symptoms of these last sufferings refer to the quantity of food that I
am consumed, while in the ortorexia attention to the quality of the food
is put more.
Who see themselves more affected they are young women, influenced by
declarations of actresses or famous models that announce their defense
by the natural thing, or by certain means of information that irresponsibly
spread data that call the attention without deepening in the problems
to the health.
The investigators in the subject indicate that the justifications used
by the ortoréxicos to adopt this type of feeding usually go from
ideological or religious positions to irrational beliefs, own or originating
of spokesmen with little scientific foundation. The food that is allowed
must be organic, without colorants conservatives nor, like vegetables
or fruits, that must eat crude; meats are left greasy outside and.
Also the used form of preparation, cut vegetables of certain way and
materials, only ceramic or wood are part of the obsessive ritual. The
ortoréxicos usually pay the highest prices to follow these norms.
They do not enter the category of patients of ortorexia who follow vegetarian
or macrobiotics diets (whose intention is, mainly, to avoid eating meat
and its derivatives).
To be considered a problem, the attitude before the food must imply an
injurious effect on the life; one becomes in problem when the obsessed
one prefers to remain with hunger before to eat something that does not
fulfill its expectations as far as quality, when it spends day and night
planning the diet, avoids to those who eat of different way or has discussions
about which it is or no advisable to eat.
Autor: Hidrocodone Para Dolores.
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