Unhealthy interest to a healthy food

There is a phenomenon on certain type of a food for a long time already is studied by corresponding experts and even admits disease. Is called nervous ortorexia.

Non-polluting apple for a breakfast, a handful of sprouted wheat for a dinner, a leaf of the freshest salad for a supper and a drink of the Alpine water before a dream. At sugar we do not look at all, at the sight of big fat man, jamming chips beer, fastidiously we screw up the face and with it is proud of the lifted head it is walked on trainings. «That in it bad?» – you are surprised. At first sight – anything. But, having looked narrowly more attentively, you understand: and the king is sick! It is a question of mental frustration under the name ortorexia.

Wolf in the sheep skin

In translation from Greek a word «ortorexia» the name means «correct appetite». The illness is shown by excessive, painful hobby for a healthy food. More often young, diffident girls whom figures for the sake of symmetry are ready to follow fanatically to any, even to the most strict diets become victims ortorexia. They try to discover various councils, confessions of the grown thin stars and as afflicted rush to realize just read in numerous female magazines and the Internet. As a result they develop own, rather exotic rules of a food for which observance spend more and more time. Here so quite praise-worthy aspiration to a healthy food is possible to the point of irrationality, outgrowing gradually in mental frustration.

Amazes ortorexia and quite adult, rather successful people whom it is too critical concern the body. Without noticing advantages and exaggerating in own eyes lacks, they try to make everything to change, take themselves in echinoid mittens. So, for example, the Hollywood actress Gvinet Paltrow because of fear to recover some years ago arrived. She has refused coffee, sugar, flour products, a potato, tomatoes, milk, meat and has resolutely passed to a Japanese power supply system «macrobiotics». For the sake of observance of the rules established by the author of this diet, the actress was ready on any of a victim. It has ceased to go to restaurants and if for a long time left the house necessarily took with itself «correct meal». The food rules of Gvinet imposed also to associates which as it seemed to it, commit a crime in relation to the organism, eating stakes, cakes, French fries and other “poison”. This categoriality has played a pivotal role in rupture of Gvinet with a handsome man Brad Pitom who persistently didn’t wish to become the vegetarian.

Singer Dzherri Hollivel too has decently brought. Being in structure «the Spice girls», she fanatically dreamed to get rid of the moderately magnificent forms and, eventually, has managed to achieve it. But what price? The aspiration to become thin and sonorous has made the anchoress mad about a healthy way of life of Dzherri. It has ceased to visit, on parties and receptions because didn’t presume to eat a slice from this that there submitted. She only ate houses, basically fish, vegetables and fruit, and only that the personal cook prepared for it. Besides, products for a diet of the singer were selected by the known dietician to whom she entirely trusted. All has ended it is mental frustration which, fortunately, managed to be cured. Today Dzherri doesn’t concern any more food so fanatically. She eats practically everything, limiting itself only in very fat and is obvious not useful products.

Ortorexia – disease youngish, its descriptions have appeared in the medical literature only some years ago.

Risk group

According to psychotherapists, propensity to орторексии is at all who is inclined to the raised introspection, likes to be engaged in a heart-searching, and also at hypochondriacs who unduly show consideration for the health and try to discover nonexistent illnesses. Risk to be ill орторексией and those to whom since the childhood put some idea that «you worthless, on what not a capable being». For such people refusal of favourite chips or a cake is a way to prove to own hardness, a solvency, ability to supervise a situation. But more often behind extreme hobby for eutrophy there is an unwillingness to search real meaning of the life and internal emptiness which the person tries to fill though with something. Such ortorexia it is possible to compare to the alcoholic, doing not wish to solve the problems and to make efforts for personal growth. Instead it exhausts the internal conflicts in a bottle.

In the same way many arrive also suffering ortorexia. Where it is easier to them to work to the seventh sweat in a gym, to exhaust itself with diets and hidrokolono therapy, than to glance in the soul. Rough activity which is planted with such patient, gives the chance to it to escape from thoughts that is time to think already, for example, of work change, a marriage (or divorce) or maybe about more spacious apartment or a birth of the child.

Commune of food righteous persons

American Stephen Bretmen – the author of the book «Predilection for useful products became the pioneer of ortorexia: how to overcome obsession eutrophy». And it not the theorist, and an expert. In 70th years of the last century Stephen has tested on itself all “delights” of this mental frustration. Then it and two more tens adherents have organized a commune which united not interested persons is anything, except non-polluting products. Having bought ranch, Stephen with companions began to grow up there vegetables and fruit which made a basis of their diet. And fish communitarians have refused meat completely. And still they have told firm “are not present” to honey, an onions and garlic which from this brotherhood have seemed to someone the harmful.

Stephen has been convinced that is it is possible only the freshest, just pulled out of the earth or the vegetables removed from a branch and fruit. The one who dared to clean from a peel was considered as the sinner or to cut vegetables as as a result they lose the lion’s share of energy of the earth and the sun. And God forbid to swallow a carrot slice, without having chewed it before 50 times! «After a year of observance of such diet I felt to a lungs full of energy and forces, – Stephen Bretmen writes. – I was pleased with unusual clearness of thinking, and I have started to consider myself as the present righteous person. To the people, which fir-trees chips and chocolate cakes, I concerned as the unfortunate lowest beings aspiring only filling a belly. In due course I so was fond of a healthy way of life that began to enter more and more rigid restrictions into the diet, thought out for myself severe enough punishments, for example, starvation within 2–3 days».

As a result Stephen has finished itself to an exhaustion and a nervous breakdown. The monk-Benedictine who has met on a course of life of the guy has rescued a situation. He has helped Stephen to realize that the eutrophy shouldn’t be extreme and it is not necessary to show fanaticism in aspiration to a healthy way of life. Since then Bretmen became strongly in the experiments. In one of interview he has told that doesn’t doubt advantage of increase in a share of vegetables and fruit in a diet of the majority of us, but performance of rules of a healthy food shouldn’t be pedantic.