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Orthorexia: An Obsession With Healthy Eating (GALLERY)
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Here’s an eating disorder that might not look so bad at first glance. Unfortunately, just like over-eating, anorexia or bulimia, this eating disorder can take a spin for the worse when it becomes excessive. Orthorexia is an obsession with being healthy, from fueling your body with only organic foods to meticulously counting calories and getting adequate exercise.
Calorie Lab interviewed Dr. Bratman who says it can become dangerous “when food becomes a source not just of nutrition, but of virtue or self-worth, when eating ‘bad’ food implies that one is a bad person, and when the diet becomes a source of either self-esteem or, conversely, guilt and self-loathing.”
Dr. Bratman says you may have orthorexia if you…
* Spend more than three hours a day thinking about healthy food.
* Plan your day’s menu more than 24 hour ahead of time.
* Take more pleasure from the “virtuous” aspect of your food than from actually eating it.
* Find your quality of life decreasing as the “quality” of your food increases.
* Are increasingly rigid and self-critical about your eating.
* Base your self-esteem on eating “healthy” foods, and have a lower opinion of people who do not.
* Eat “correct” foods to the avoidance of all those that you’ve always enjoyed.
* So limit what you can eat that you can dine “correctly” only at home, spending less and less time with friends and family.
* Feel guilt or self-loathing when you eat “incorrect” foods.
* Derive a sense of self-control from eating “properly.”
(calorielab)
Via: calorielab
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