After a few decades of unconscious eating, so addicted to junk food and sugary products, we have begun to wake up. We want healthy food that nourishes us and does not poison us inside but what if this starts to not benefit us
Healthy eating has been in vogue for a few years. We already know that quinoa, tofu and the bio have come to stay: This is demonstrated, for example, by all these Instagram accounts loaded with hashtags like #healthyfood. And that’s good, right? Healthy eating, by definition, should have nothing wrong with it. But what if we tell you yes? You may not know it, but this obsession with you or your friends with the ‘healthy diet’ can become a problem., And this problem has a name: orthorexia. In addition, this social network, as explained by a study from University College London, acts as a breeding ground for this eating disorder. To put it in one sentence, it would be something like this: while anorexia implies a quantitative restriction of food, orthorexia implies a qualitative restriction.
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Orthorexia is an eating disorder (Yes, like anorexia or bulimia) based on an unhealthy obsession with healthy eating. What does it mean? Because if your healthy diet begins to seriously interfere with other aspects of your life, such as your emotional well-being or your social life, the message is clear: it is getting out of hand. Now, how do you know if your healthy diet is becoming insane? There are five warning signs you should not lose sight of:
1. Feeling guilty about skipping the diet
Dieting is OK, but if one day, for whatever reason, you get a muffin or a donut because you feel like it and that’s it, that shouldn’t affect your mood. If you are one of those who spend hours then thinking about those extra calories, In this contribution of lactose or whatever you should not have taken … in short, is that something is wrong.
2. You stop doing things for fear of eating what you don’t have to
Think about it: they suggest you go out to dinner on a Friday night or noon, but you’re scared to end up in a kebab or whatever fast food of bad death … so you prefer to stay at home, get dressed for your chard and your boiled fish. Do you sound? Is that something you would do? So here it is: alarm signal activated.
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3. Categorize foods into two closed groups
It is true that some foods are generally healthier than others. However, this does not mean that eating a pizza will cause you cancer or drinking kale juice every day will make you immortal. Be flexible, stay reasonable. And for God’s sake: eat this pizza or this donut or whatever you want because it won’t affect you as you imagine. Abusing something is what will make you feel bad.
4. Choose foods only according to how healthy they are
It is true that we feed ourselves to live, yes, but also to enjoy, and if you do not give yourself a taste from time to time you lose an important source of pleasure. Also, as we said, it’s about eating to live … not living to eat. So: stop spending so many hours counting calories and focus a little more on your own enjoyment. If you don’t … who will?
5. Give sermons to your friends about what they eat
Seriously – this is the worst thing you can do. Because it’s one thing to want to dine on organic spinach with Himalayan red salt and Goji berries, and it’s another to judge your friends by their dish of fried eggs with potatoes. Don’t overwhelm them with your theories of trans fats and hormonal chickens: They just want to eat quietly and without reproachful looks. Everyone chooses their diet and when the time comes change it … or not. Respect him.