What is Orthorexia: Signs You Have an Eating Disorder
It would be a mistake to assume that the list of eating disorders is limited to anorexia and bulimia.
Another eating disorder is orthorexia, which is a selectivity in food that is dangerous to health.
How to recognize orthorexia
When choosing food, an orthorexic is guided solely by its “usefulness”, and objective criteria of usefulness may be absent. The “bell” rings if a person unreasonably consumes gluten-free products or adheres to a raw food diet.
Thinking about food and planning your daily diet takes up a lot of time – more than three hours a day.
Food is divided into "right" and "wrong", for example, carbohydrates are often considered dangerous, which is why people avoid them in any form and quantity. The list of harmful products is constantly growing, and the fear of them reaches the proportions of a phobia.
A person cannot eat outside the home, since only on his own territory can he control the process of preparing food, while visiting guests or a cafe is considered dangerous.
Often, people with orthorexia impose their views on nutrition on others and criticize them for their eating habits.
Deviation from the chosen diet causes a person to feel guilty and self-loathing.
Earlier we told you why you can’t eat pasta with cutlets.
