Anorexia and bulimia are two well-known eating disorders, while for ortoreksijata almost nothing is known. This pathology refers to people whose care for healthy eating becomes an obsession.
It is important to eat 5 fruits and vegetables a day, not to exaggerate with meat, avoid palm oil ... These and many other councils, although good, may become the enemy of your health if you need to enter healthy products turned into a disease that now has its own name - ortoreksija (from the Greek word "orthos" meaning correct and "orexis" which means appetite).
More and more people want to control what they eat, and basically it's a positive. But the problem arises when choosing food becomes a burden from which you can not release. In ortoreksichnite persons desire to feed healthy becomes an obsession and they start worrying psychological symptoms develop. However when it comes to anorexia and bulimia, food takes control of life personalities. Unlike the aforementioned two disorders in ortoreksijata not about calories, but the nutritional quality of products.
As with "traditional" eating disorders, and in this case the fear at the thought that a person could eat something that is bad for her health begins to create stress and cause anxiety. The term "ortoreksija" first time in 1997 used a US researcher Steven Bratman, who even made a test to identify potential patients. Although this term is not recognized, more and more physicians require diagnosis to set up formally.
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