What is orthorexia?

In 2000 a new kind of disease appeared, patients were suffering from an obsession with eating healthy food.Orthorexia is mainly when people turn obsessive when it comes to counting calories and avoid adding fat to their meals.They become isolated because of their psychological issues.

It often starts with a simple diet followed by a lot of food restrictions. Psychologists explain that phenomenon as being the consequence of self-deprivation,the cure is to expose patients to those foods progressively, which will initiate an inner fight between consuming the Forbidden food and healing. One of their healing steps also consists in learning to associate eating with pleasure rather than punishment as well as the consumption of sugar and fat in moderation.

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