It is a fact that the main and primary key to being healthy is to eat a healthy, balanced and varied diet. However, this evidence can be taken to an extreme as it ends up against those who take more care of their diet, and can become an obsession, which is detrimental to both physical and mental health. The need to eat a healthy diet can become devoid of any type of nutrients that are considered harmful to the body Obsessive-compulsive disorder called orthorexia.
An orthopedic person follows a highly restrictive diet, and at all costs avoids foods that contain not only fats or sugars, but also preservatives, dyes or other unhealthy ingredients. A disorder similar to bulimia and anorexia and can be just as dangerousBecause this passion for health can lead to the opposite: serious health problems due to a lack of essential nutrients, by cutting out healthy fats, for example, that provide essential vitamins like vitamin D and that would hypothetically weaken the immune system.
Rapid weight loss, fatigue, fainting
“This disorder usually leads to rapid and visible weight loss, lack of energy and fatigue (even by what determines the time to plan and organize your diet) and greater ease of exposure to injuries, along with excessive exercise without proper nutrition,” emphasizes the dietitian Veronica Velasco BluU de Sanitas. Even in severe and long-term cases, orthotics led to health problems that required surgical interventions.
Dr. Cecilia Sanz Garcia, a gastroenterologist at Sanitas la Moralia University Hospital explains.
They are anxiously striving to improve health
This restrictive diet will be reflected in behaviors that obsessively seek to improve health: spending more than three hours a day thinking about daily diet, strict meal planning, and the need to control every food combination, portion, and combination in between; Guilt is very high if you skip any of your diet requirements. “On the psychological level, he records a series of observed patterns of behavior that clearly affect his ability to have a balanced social coexistence,” explains Raquel Velasco del Castillo, a psychologist at BluaU de Sanitas. In other words, they tend to social isolation caused by their food rigors.
Serious consequences for mental and physical health
Very serious physical and psychological consequences that must be detected and treated as quickly as possible by physical and mental health professionals. Solutions to this disorder are usually found in the field of psychology. Treatment will seek to uncover the origin of this disorder, most of which are closely related to obsessive traits.
“Once we figure out the problem, the treatment, which should be multidisciplinary, in any case, will be it Educate the patient about the nutritional and social risks of maintaining these strict habits A therapeutic intervention will be implemented to provide the person with the ability to make his or her guidance more flexible, and to achieve real healthy habits,” adds psychologist BluaU de Sanitas. Although psychological work is necessary to overcome orthotics, it requires the support of the social and family environment.” Loved ones will be a resource Very valuable support and support for the patient, always guided by the advice of health professionals working with the patient.” In this way, you will gradually deal with the orthopedic problem and will re-establish your quality of life and social life.
