lenxa

Finding by internet something about the “perfectionist”, subject that we were talking last class, I’ve found an interesting article about a new illness that its name is “Ortorexia”, the obsession to eat healthy food. While the problem of the anorexia and bulimia is about the quantity that you eat, the problem of Ortorexia is about the quality of the food. It’s an obsession to eat only biological healthy food. The people who are victims of this illness suffer a hard worry about the healthy food every time; it’s the one objective in their life. These kinds of people try to get different physical, psychical and moral benefits, which it makes them hooked on it, as a drug addict.
These people only eat food that it comes from ecological agriculture but vegetables without pesticide or artificial substance. Most of them give up eat basically groups of foods (for example meat, greases, fish) falling in a dietetic disorder or malnutrition because they don’t replace these kinds of proteins for others.
Generally this illness appears among excessive perfectionist people, people who are obsessive in rules. It appears among people who have suffered anorexia too.

There are famous people who are different habits in theirs nutrition, a correct habit if it will not became in obsession. For example, the designer Jean Paul Gaultier admits that he drinks 68 orange juices every day. Julia Roberts explain that she drinks some litres of Soya milk every day. Wynona Ride only drinks organic Coca cola and Mel Gibson doesn’t eat chicken because he thinks that it increase the breasts.

Although there aren’t a lot of studies about it, there are some diagnoses about it:
- To spend more than three hours a day thinking in a healthy food
- To feel bad every time that you don’t keep the diet
- To worry more for the quality of the foods than to enjoy eating them
- Excessive planning that you have to eat next day
- Social isolation
- To prefer don’t eat anything than eat something prohibited
Nowadays, in Spain, there aren’t a lot of cases about it, but the specialists ensure that the number of people will increase in a few time.

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