Orthorexia... do you know what it is?

Raquel Soares has made some research and found out that:

Orthorexia

“The disease is characterized by an exaggerated concern about the type of food consumed. The orthorexics believe that only natural food (many vegetables, cereals, canned meat) are good for the body. Although the benefits of this type of food have already been proved, orthorexics end up harming themselves by taking food to a extreme rigidity.
The problem begins when the concern about food starts to take much of the day of these individuals. The orthorexics do not measure efforts to buy their food: they travel long distances and pay much higher than the real value of common food. Besides, these people refuse to eat in their friends’ houses and relatives for not knowing what will be served.
When failing to comply with their objectives they are taken by great feelings of guilt and then become even more radical, which shows the character of their unhealthy behaviour.”

Raquel Soares, nº24, 8ºG