With the effort to keep up with the active life, ready-to-eat foods can be preferred in daily life. However, healthy eating is becoming more and more important. People who are sensitive about this issue make an effort to acquire healthy eating habits and even to instill these habits in their children. This effort to live a healthy life often increases the quality of life of people.
However, for some people, this habit can turn into an unhealthy mental activity, although it is apparently an activity for health, as it causes serious anxiety. In this case, repetitive thoughts about whether the food is taken or consumed is healthy, severe anxiety, and the cycles of controlling certain criteria such as food preparation stages, additives, food dyes, packaging characteristics, at a level that makes daily life difficult, can begin.
If the effort to eat healthy is of such intensity and frequency that it will make daily life activities difficult, the possibility that it will turn from a healthy effort into an unhealthy obsession should be evaluated. Therefore, the problem is not the effort to eat healthy, but the intensity, frequency and how much it blocks the person's daily life.
It is seen that this condition called Orthorexia Nervosa, which is not yet among the diagnoses of eating disorders, is becoming more common day by day. In people who experience this situation;
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Thinking about healthy/unhealthy nutrition at a level that will affect their daily lives
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For this reason, avoiding socializing, traveling and similar activities,
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Deterioration of nutritional balance/deterioration of physical health due to certain group food intake,
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Losing a significant amount of weight due to obsession with healthy eating, not due to calorie restriction,
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Spending a lot of time while planning food and shopping for healthy eating,
r is seen.
Without generalizing completely; It can be thought that people who are prone to obsession, who are thought to maintain a certain appearance or weight due to their work/social environment, or who are very concerned with diet, have a higher risk in this regard.
People who think too much about healthy nutrition and are obsessed should be evaluated in a multidisciplinary framework due to their psychological difficulties as well as their difficulties in nutrition and physical health, and if the need is determined, physicians, dietitians and physicians, Psychologist support is recommended. As a result of addressing and working on the physical and psychological aspects of the job, it can turn from a 'healthy diet' obsession with a person's desire to a healthy healthy eating effort. Thus, while maintaining the meaning of healthy nutrition in the life balance of the person; social life, work, family life, interests, such as other life dynamics will not be an obstacle.
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