Are you orthorexic?..do this test!!!

The Bratman test for Orthorexia

• Do you spend more than 3 hours a day thinking about your diet?
  
• Do you plan your meals several days ahead?
  
• Is the nutritional value of your meal more important than the pleasure of eating it?
  
• Has the quality of your life decreased as the quality of your diet has increased?
  
• Have you become stricter with yourself lately?
  
• Does your self-esteem get a boost from eating healthily?
  
• Have you given up foods you used to enjoy in order to eat the ‘right’ foods
  
• Does your diet make it difficult for you to eat out, distancing you from family and friends?
  
• Do you feel guilty when you stray from your diet?
  
• Do you feel at peace with yourself and in total control when you eat healthily?
  

Yes to 4 or 5 of the above questions means it is time to relax more about food.

Yes to all of them means a full-blown obsession with eatinghealthy food.

The Drunkorexia

What is the Drunkorexia?

Origin

Drunkorexia comes from the english word"drunk" (drinking or drink) and is defined as a disorder in which people stop eating in order to compensate for the calories provided by the alcohol, so it essentially becomes the only source of calories with underlying these people.
Besides the abuse of alcoholic beverages, Drunkorexia is combined with other harmful behaviors such as making "binges and then induces vomiting. Hence it is claimed that the Drunkorexia is a strange mixture between anorexia, bulimia and alcohol.
It is a step to alcoholism and malnutrition and protein.
In the last years has begun to speak on this issue that mainly affects younger.

Causes

Like as anorexia and bulimia, people with drunkorexia are prone to obsessive behaviors respect to its weight. This condition stems from strong emotional deprivation and certain psychological disorders. If not treated timely, there are several risks.

Effects

The consequences of drunkorexia are catastrophics, as well as generating of physical disorders, causes irreparable mental disorders.
The most dangerous effects are: the deterioration of neurons due to alcohol, the lost of consciousness or distortion of reality, so that people have a misperception of the image and are fat when they are very thin. They can also express violent behavior or social isolation.

symptoms

-facial swelling

-they lose much weight in a short time (between 3 and 6 months). - Is obsessed with weight and calories from food. - going to the bathroom, especially after eating.

-obvious physical deterioration due to vomiting

-they are people who do not often share meals and binge eat if they do,

-too long showers often occur after eating

-They can’t have fun without alcohol.

-Drink alone or in secret ..

Risks

The food or the absence of food associated with excess alcohol act as a magical and dangerous element.With this decease you have the feeling that you can control your weight, your mood and euphoria. But the belief of having control is short. For the health of the body, these combinations are literally explosive cocktail. If a woman vomited before going to a party, your body is already dehydrated when you drink alcohol. The loss of potassium salts and the lack of oxygen in the blood are cause heart risk. According to the Association of Bulimia and Anorexia, 10 per cent of those with the disease die from it. Other consequences are visible traffic accidents and other problems resulting from substance abuse.

The Orthorexia

What is Orthorexia?





Orthorexia is the pathological obsession to consume only healthy food. This obsession can become transformed into illness if not eat meat, fish or other necessary food and nutritional deficiencies occur.




Origin of Orthorexia




It's a new eating disorder that arises from the current ecological culture All we care about eating healthy foods, but when that becomes normal behavior become an obsession involving health hazards qualifies as orthorexia. This new disease, is increasingly evident in Western society, is above the obsession with diets, body worship and the fear of food treated with artificial products.
Were defined as not many years ago the signs and symptoms of anorexia and bulimia, the doctors and researchers are beginning to consider evidence other food-related disorder, has been called orthorexia. The difference between anorexia and orthorexia is that the former is related to the amount of food eaten and the second refers to the quality of food that are taken.




Orthorexia is defined as a pathological obsession to consume only certain types of food: organic, vegetable, no preservatives, no fat, no meat or fruit only, or only raw foods. The method of preparation - vegetables cut in a certain way - and materials - only ceramic or wood only, etc .- are also part of the obsessive ritual.


They walk far to get food even are willing to pay more for them if they do not find them or doubt their origin, do not eat rather not eat, friends house not knowing what they are offering. When not meeting their goals, they feel guilt and fall in strict dieting or fasting.



Effects of orthorexia



This condition can have serious health effects. For example, suppression of fat intake may compromise the fat soluble vitamins and fatty acids, both essential for the organism. No meat, iron levels are those that collapse and, although vegetables also provide protein, are of inferior quality.

You can also result in nutritional deficiencies if the food does not replace orthorexic rejects by others who can provide the same nutritional supplements. This results in anemia, vitamin deficiencies or lack of energy or oligolementos Moreover, not only is bad physically. Psychologically also produces a disorder that in most cases must be treated by a specialist.

Like anorexia, bulimia and all the eating disorders, recovery is more expensive psychological than physical, because we have to eliminate all behavior that has adopted the orthorexic over a period of time sufficiently long . And this requires a lot of will and time.


Symptoms of orthorexia

It usually appears in people with obsessive-compulsive behaviors and genetically predisposed to it. It has also been observed that many patients who have had anorexia nervosa, to choose to make to recover your diet only natural foods, probiotic, organically grown with no fat or artificial substances that could cause harm. Paradoxically, this behavior instead of preventing the disorder, could create.




The most visible characteristics of a orthorexic are:



-Obsession disordered eating healthy foods (natural).


-Tend to be people with obsessive-compulsive behaviors and those who have had anorexia nervosa have a predisposition to allergies.


-Excluding food meat, fats and foods treated with herbicides or pesticides.


-They may have nutritional deficiencies.


-Never skip your diet, even on special occasions













Treatment



It is important that barely detect early warning signs will encourage the person to receive specialist help, because as time passes it becomes increasingly difficult to break with harmful food pattern. Like anorexia nervosa and bulimia, a multidisciplinary approach orthorexia specialists in endocrinology, nutrition and psychological or psychiatric therapy.



The excess of information in relation to dietary choices and eating disorders, the extent of the food supply have influenced people to choose, sometimes by a diet of little benefit. Concern for a healthy lifestyle with a diet in the same terms, it is reprehensible, but to the extent that normal behavior becomes an attitude significant enough to change lifestyle and becomes an obsession. Such behavior implies danger to health.