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 In recent years, an increasing number of people are beginning to think about their health and about healthy lifestyles. This trend is associated with the active promotion of its TV and the growing influence of western lifestyles, where adherence to this or that principles of healthy eating has become an integral part of society. As a result - people are starting to eat strictly by the hour, and in accordance with an elaborate meal plan, prefer only ecologically clean product, significantly restrict the list of "approved" products. But is it really good?
Even the most useful and correct habits can have a reverse side of the coin.
The strict calorie counting and drawing up individual plans seized power of humanity, even more than the problem of hunger, AIDS and nuclear weapons.
However, such a popular hobby healthy lifestyle has created a new disease - ortoreksi
. The name "ortoreksi" comes from the Greek word "Ortho" - «the right" means the pursuit of proper healthy diet, develops into a real obsession
. American Dr. Steven Bretman first used the term in 1997 to describe the new nutritional or eating disorder
. He puts the disease on a par with such well-known mental illnesses like anorexia and bulimia
. But not all experts agree with his opinion
. Some totally deny the existence of the problem and call it far-fetched, others agree with its existence, but prefer to be considered only as an option ortoreksi anorexia
. In any case, in America conducted studies have shown that the disease susceptible about 6% of the population in this country
. So while ortoreksi not yet officially recognized as a mental illness, it proved the existence of objective statistical data
.
This disease usually develops in people who try to always and everywhere to eat properly and to bring this idea to the point of absurdity.
Over time, they increasingly go deep into the jungle of a healthy diet, increasing the list of "forbidden" food indefinitely. The saddest thing is that, unlike in America, in our country the most ardent supporters of a variety of meal plans are basically teenage girls. They are like no other, ready to follow any theories, only to look like a top model.
Of course, not easy to resist the psychological onslaught when the pages of glossy magazines you look down forever young beauties with beautiful bodies. Even more difficult to meet the new standards and parameters of beauty. So it turns out that
people start to give up the food you like, for the sake of that which is useful.
The next stage - a constant feeling of guilt from what is eaten "prohibited" product and, as a rule, a person ceases to enjoy your favorite dishes. It starts with all my heart despise myself if even one step back from their diet. All this leads to low self-esteem, to the fact that a person ceases to enjoy life and feels full only within the strict limits of a particular diet. Following the principles of supply becomes a mania, which poisons life, reduce its quality.
An interesting fact is that the doctor himself Bretman ortoreksi only interested in the problem after her personally encountered. In his youth he fanatically followed his own theory of power, according to which it was necessary to eat only freshly harvested vegetables. At the same time, before swallowing the next portion of food, he chewed each piece exactly 50 times. In the end, it all led to this breakdown, which Bretman gave the name "ortoreksi." But only free from the disease, he had a serious study of the problem and has dedicated her book "The addiction to useful products: how to overcome the obsession with the correct nutrition." He revised his views on life and nutrition, leading a new campaign against the mindless following extreme diets that drain man not only physically, but also mentally.
In deciding to follow a healthy lifestyle, it is necessary not to forget the sense of proportion. After all, the food - this is one of the main pleasures in life, and can make an unforgivable mistake, completely depriving myself of that pleasure is only in favor of newfangled trends.
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