Excessive Concern About Eating Healthy: What Are Its Consequences?
In recent years, the number of people showing excessive concern about healthy eating has increased. The nutritional currents and the concern to take care of themselves, can make certain people become obsessed. This is what is known as orthorexia.
It is not positive to take any dietary trend to the extreme, no matter how positive it is for health. Virtue always resides in the middle. Below we will detail what orthorexia specifically consists of and how it can affect the life of the individual, so that you are aware of its consequences.
What is excessive concern about eating healthy?
Orthorexia nervosa was described not long ago by Steven Bratman in 1997. It is characterized by the pathological obsession of biologically pure food, leading to significant dietary restrictions.
People who suffer from it exclude from the diet foods that they consider impure because they carry herbicides, pesticides or other artificial substances, carrying out a strict diet, sometimes, with a lack of essential nutrients. Typically, they refuse to eat out because they do not trust food preparation.
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