After a few decades of nonsensical eating, heavily addicted to junk food and super sugars, we start to wake up. We want healthy food that nourishes us and doesn’t poison us inside, but what if it doesn’t benefit us
Healthy eating has been in vogue for a few years now. We already know that quinoa, tofu and the bio is here to stay: This is evident, for example, from all those Instagram accounts loaded with hashtags such as #healthyfood. And this is good, right? Healthy eating should by definition not be wrong. But what if we say yes? You may not know, but your or your friends’ obsession with “healthy food” can become a problem, and that problem has a name: orthorexia. Moreover, this social network, according to a study by University College London, acts as a breeding ground for this eating disorder. To put it in one sentence, it would go 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, such as anorexia or bulimia) based on an unhealthy obsession with healthy eatingWhat does this mean? Well, if your healthy diet begins to seriously disrupt other aspects of your life, such as your emotional well-being or your social life, the message is clear: it’s getting out of handNow, how do you know if your healthy diet is getting unhealthy? There are five red flags to keep in mind
1. Guilt if you skip the diet
Going on a diet is okay, but if one day, for whatever reason, you eat a muffin or a donut because you feel like it and that’s all, it shouldn’t affect your mood. If you’re one of those who thinks about those extra calories hours later, in that lactose contribution or whatever it is that you shouldn’t have taken … well, something’s not right.
2. You stop doing things for fear of eating what you shouldn’t.
Think about it: they suggest you go out for dinner on a Friday night or afternoon, but it scares you to end up in a kebab or wherever Fast food seedy … so You prefer to stay at home, between your chard and your cooked fishDoes it sound familiar to you? Is it something you would do? So there it is: alarm signal activated.
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3. You divide foods into two closed groups
It is true that there are foods that are generally healthier than others. However, this doesn’t mean that eating a pizza causes cancer or that drinking kale juice every day makes you immortal. Be flexible, be reasonableAnd for the love of God, eat that pizza or that donut or whatever you want, because it won’t affect you the way you imagine it. Abusing something is what will make you feel unwell.
4. You choose foods based only on how healthy they are.
It is true that we eat for life, yes, but also for enjoyment, and if you don’t let yourself go now and then, you are missing an important source of pleasure. As we said, it’s about food to live … not to live to eatSo stop counting calories for so many hours and focus a little more on your own pleasure. If you don’t … who will?
5. You teach your friends about what they eat.
Seriously, this is the worst thing you can do. Because it’s one thing you’ll want to dine on organic spinach with Himalayan red salt and goji berries, and another is you’ll judge your friends on their plate of fried eggs with potatoes. Don’t overwhelm them with your theories about trans fat and hormone chickens: they just want to eat quietly and without disapproving looks. Everyone chooses their diet and when the time comes they change it … or not. Please respect it.