What is Nervous Orthorexia

"Rexia" in Greek means "craving for food".A radical refusal to eat for the sake of a slender figure usually leads to life-threatening weight loss, called "anorexia."That is literally - "without attraction to food."But there is another "rexia", which does not carry such a negative in its name. In it, instead of "ano", the prefix "ortho" is used - which means "correct" from the same Greek. Consequently, the combination of these two words means "the right craving for food".But doctors gastroenterologists and nutritionists warn: in excessive correctness there is a dark side.

Orthorexia - a disease or not

If anorexic experts are treated solely as a disease, what is dangerous is orthorhysis? Is it bad to think about the correctness of nutrition? Nervous orthorhysis is a product of the 21st century. The term was introduced by Stephen Bratman in 1997.That is, the study of the problem began only recently. Therefore, to date, nutritionists, gastroenterologists and psychologists have not concluded: to consider whether or not orthorhysis is a disease. There is not enough information for scientific analysis. Officially, orthorhexia is not included in the ICD10 and DSM4 disease classifiers. However, recent serious studies of Italian scientists prove, although the problem is very specific, but still reflects the real phenomenon. In practice, specialists already widely use this terminology, but officially this diagnosis is not in the right.

At first glance, what is this disease? A person closely follows the time and diet, does not eat foods with different fillings, etc. But any positive idea can be brought to the point of absurdity. For example, you can inspire yourself that sugar is a white death, milk is a powder, vegetables and fruits are solid nitrates. So, through such obsessive thoughts, a person refuses first from one product, then from another. And further - on increasing. What ultimately leads to an acute deficiency in the body of proteins, carbohydrates, fats, vitamins. In other words, such "correctness" will significantly weaken the protective functions of the body. And as an addition - to cause mental disorders, to undermine the nervous system. It is especially dangerous that special intelligibility in the consumed products can imperceptibly lead to the same anorexia.

Symptoms of Nervous Orthorexia

How does one recognize that a person has crossed the boundary between right and wrong craving for food? Recognizing the symptoms is not difficult. They manifest themselves in a behavior that is not usual to a person. For example:

• If a person's life becomes subordinated solely to nutrition issues. He talks about food and nothing else.
• If one kind of roast meat causes almost panic.
• If a person starts to avoid meeting with friends and acquaintances, when a joint meal is supposed. And if it does, then refuses one or another dish under various pretexts. Nervously responds to comments, tries to convince of the harmfulness of certain foods.
• If I stopped visiting catering establishments, and before that I visited. Motivating that there people use "wrong" food.

Each of the symptoms separately does not indicate a kind of psychological problem. For example, someone really does not like fried meat or concoction in the cafeteria. However, if most of the situations described above are typical of a person, there is a high probability of having a nervous ororexia.

Which specialist should I contact

When the symptoms, as they say "face", you can refer to a psychologist and gastroenterologist. The psychologist will help you deal with the problem, and the gastroenterologist will decide on the diet. However, this problem can be defeated independently. The main thing is to realize it. It is very important not to follow blindly fashionable trends, but to understand a few things. Although we are not all right with the environment, it is still impossible to shield ourselves from the outside world by corking in a sterile room. After all, the human body has powerful protective functions, if everything is in order with immunity. He is able to independently fight the influence of an unfavorable environment, and sometimes painlessly adapt to it. Experts advise to switch attention to other useful things. For example, do some sports. It is much more useful than exhausting yourself by counting nitrates in cabbage and cholesterol in a steamed cutlet.