Orthorexia-Excessive Compulsive Eating Disorder
Orthorexia-Excessive Compulsive Eating Disorder, refers to the condition characterized by excessive focus on eating healthy foods. In rare cases, this focus may turn into a fixation so extreme that it can lead to severe malnutrition and eventually death.
Breaking it down, the term Orthorexia was caused by Steven Bratman from the Greek orthos, “correct or right”, and orexis for “appetite” thus making Orthorexia mean “correct Appetite.”
What Is Orthorexia
Orthorexia-Excessive Compulsive Eating Disorder can become such an obsession with healthy foods, it can progress to the point where it crowds out other activities and interests, impairs relationships, and can even become physically dangerous.
When this happens…Orthorexia takes on the dimensions of a true eating disorder, like anorexia nervosa or bulimia. Most Baby Boomers know what anorexia and bulimia are, but orthorexia, is a new eating disease that faces Baby Boomers today, as we want to live longer and healthier.
Most often, orthorexia is merely a source of psychological distress, not a physical danger. However…emaciation is common among followers of certain health food diets, such raw foodism, and this can at times reach the extremes seen in anorexia nervosa.
Orthorexia-Excessive Compulsive Eating Disorder, some eating disorder specialists may fail to understand the distinction, leading to a disconnect between orthorexic and physician. If you feel that you have this, you might want to contact someone other than a regular physician.
Is orthorexia the new eating disease or disorder of the 21st century?
Remember Baby Boomers, any thing to extreme is not healthy. Try to eat and drink healthy and keep moving, exercise. Don’t forget your vitamins…
For more information on “Orthorexia-Excessive Compulsive Eating Disorder,” go to ABC News.
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