After several decades of mindless food, heavily dependent on junk food and super sugary products, we began to wake up. We want healthy food that will nourish us and not poison us inside, but if that starts to not benefit us
Healthy eating has been in vogue for several years. We already know that quinoa, and tofu the biography is here to stay: This is demonstrated, for example, by all those Instagram accounts loaded with hashtags like #healthyfood. And that’s good, isn’t it? Eating healthy, by definition, should not be wrong. But what if we say yes? You may not know this, but your or your friends’ obsession with “healthy eating” can be a problem., and that problem has a name: orthorexia. In addition, this social network, as explained by a study by University College London, acts as a breeding ground for this eating disorder. To explain it in one sentence, it would go like this: while anorexia involves 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 eating. What this means? Well, if your healthy diet is starting to seriously interfere with other aspects of your life, such as emotional well-being or your social life, the message is clear: get out of control. Now, how do you know if your healthy diet is getting unhealthy? There are five red flags that you should not lose sight of:
1. Feeling guilty when you skip the diet
Going on a diet is fine, but if one day, for any reason, you have a muffin or a donut because you feel like it, that shouldn’t affect your mood. If you are one of those who spend hours later thinking about those extra calories, in that contribution of lactose or anything else you shouldn’t have taken … well, something’s wrong.
2. Stop doing things for fear of not eating what you shouldn’t.
Think about it: I suggest you go out to dinner on Friday night or lunch, but it scares you to end up in a kebab or anywhere fast food bad … so You prefer to stay at home, put the boiled fish in the pot. Does it sound familiar to you? Is there anything you would do? So it is: alarm signal triggered.
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3. Classify foods into two closed groups
It is true that there are foods that are generally healthier than others. However, this does not mean that eating a pizza will cause cancer or that drinking kale juice every day will make you immortal. Be flexible, be reasonable. And for God’s sake: eat that pizza or that donut or whatever you want because it won’t affect you as you imagine. Abuse of something is what will make you feel bad.
4. Choose foods only based on how healthy they are.
It is true that we eat to live, yes, but also to enjoy, and if you do not indulge yourself from time to time, you lack an important source of pleasure. Also, as I 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 pleasure. If not … who will?
5. Tell your friends what they eat.
Seriously, this is the worst thing you can do. Because it’s one thing you want to take with organic spinach with Himalayan red salt and goji berries, and it’s another to judge your friends by their plate of fried eggs with potatoes. Don’t overwhelm them with trans theories with trans fats and hormones: 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.