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For the extremely healthy eater, it may seem normal to pass on saturated fats and say no to processed foods. However, the rise in “healthy” diet trends – such as eliminating entire food groups – may actually be hiding a dangerous eating disorder named orthorexia nervosa.
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Orthorexia is an emerging eating disorder that manifests as an obsession with eating only healthy foods. Unlike in anorexia or bulimia, people suffering from orthorexia are not concerned with their weight. However, their food choices often lead to dramatic weight loss, emaciation, and even death.
The problem is that certain foods that contain essential nutrients, such as animal products, are considered by those suffering with orthorexia be unhealthy or impure. However without these essential nutrients, the human body will break down and, eventually, die. Sadly, hard-core orthorexics would rather die than eat food that they consider to be unhealthy. They don’t want to be underweight or die, but their obsessive-compulsive thoughts regarding food quality override their survival instinct.
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We are all encouraged to follow a healthy diet, but some people take it too far, limiting their diets to food that they consider to be pure to the exclusion of everything else. Some of them end up with orthorexia—a severe eating disorder.
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Four years ago, when Jenna (name has been changed) decided she needed to lose weight, she tried every diet from Atkins to Weight Watchers. When those didn’t work, she became a vegetarian, writes Marina Khidekel of Teen Vogue. “I read somewhere that most of the fat you eat comes from meat,” says Jenna, now sixteen, from New York City. But when she stopped eating meat, Jenna started obsessing about everything she ate.
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If you have an unhealthy fixation on eating only healthy food, you may be suffering from orthorexia nervosa, a form of eating disorder. Although it’s beneficial to maintain a healthy diet, it’s unhealthy to become obsessed with the food you eat (or don’t eat).
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