Week 10 [16.12 - 22.12.2019] - Do you pay abnormal attention to the quality of food you consume everyday?
It’s
a well-known fact that drastic eating habits can destroy our organisms very
easily and quickly. We all know anorexia – eating disorder brought about by
excessive dieting and striving for a slim body, but have you ever heard about
orthorexia? This apparently
harmless-looking disease, in fact can cause very serious health problems. The
dieting trap starts with cutting down on unheathly food stuffs and replacing
them by whole-food. In proces of time the victims start to pay abnormal
attention to the quailty of food, their minds are affected with desire to lead
super-healthy life styles and be satisfied with pro-ecological daily eating
habits. They become obsessive about eating only healthy and „safe” products,
due to this people who
suffer from orthorexia reject from their daily diet every single product, which
they consider as processed
and harmful. Following
that more and more rigorous diet gets them to the point, where they only accept
few good, eco-products in their diet. Every other food, which seemed for them
to be „bad”, harmfull and processed has been eliminated.
There are a few symptoms and
warning signs of orthorexia:
· People, who suffer from
orthorexia spend hours on thinking about food;
· They really carefully plan
their daily-menu and shopping lists;
· Ill people check on
nutritional labels and lists of ingredients of each product;
· Very often they look down on
people who don’t pay attention to their diet;
· A warning sign i salso
following many „healthy lifestyle” bloggers and social media;
· People affected with the
disease don’t like to eat out, however if they are forced to do so and they
finally settle on eating in the restaurant they ask the waiter/waitress about
the whole, exact list of ingredients contained in the meal.
Of course there is nothing
wrong about being aware of healthy and harmfull ingerdients or good and bad
eating habits or just leading a healthy lifestyle and look out for processed
food and maybe avoid them in daily diet. However orthorexia can have disastrous
consequences. Victims ruin their health instead of improving it. Vitamin and
mineral deficiencies infuence on develop of serious disorders, such as:
anaemia, hypertension, osteoporosis or even cancer. So
there is the rub: it’s all about keeping sanity and temperance. In
contemporary society each year hundreds of new, groundbreaking diets are
created, some of them are good, simple and can positively impact our health,
but others may be really destructive for both – mental and physical health.
However there is one certain thing: there is no diet which will solve our
low-selfesteem problem, being slim and eating healthy will not make you happy
if you are not able to fully accept yourself. To feel good we have to like our
own personality our adventages and disadventages, otherwise it’s very likely we
will fall into one of dieting traps.
Questions:
1. Why
in your opinion do more and more people suffer from orthorexia?
2. Do
you pay high attention to the quailty of food you consume? And if yes, then: do
you eat whole-food all the time or you treat yourself and eat something
unhealthy from time to time?
3. In
was sense can dieting be dangerous? What other „dieting traps” do you know?
Sources:
Comments
In my opinion it might be due to social media and spreading some popular and not healthy ideologies related to food.
2. Do you pay high attention to the quality of food you consume? And if yes, then: do you eat whole-food all the time or you treat yourself and eat something unhealthy from time to time?
From my perspective only the number of total consumed calories and proteins is important.
It doesn't matter if you eat something considered as unhealthy as long as the numbers are met.
3. In was sense can dieting be dangerous? What other „dieting traps” do you know?
I believe that most people are not educated in this manner and without proper knowledge can harm themselves usually during the attempt to lose some weight and applying some stupid diet's with extremely low calories spartan-like or some other crazy ideologies.
2. Unfortunately, I don’t pay attention to the quality of food I consume. I am that kind of person who can eat everything in every quantity and still be thin. Maybe at the moment of death from cancer, I’ll regret every single kebab I had… I like to choose fancy, craft beers instead of those popular ones, but I guess it doesn’t count 😊
3. I am totally unfamiliar with this topic. The only thing which comes to my mind is veganism and forcing children, or pets to follow it.
I try not to eat too much, but I don't count, and I'm not going to count calories. If I feel like pizza, I go to pizza, if I feel like eating McDonald's, I eat there. There is nothing wrong with fulfilling your eating cravings.
The diet itself is a very nice phenomenon of planning your food. Unfortunately, people wanting to lose weight take a lot of weight loss tablets, stop eating completely or eat a lot at the end of the day because they haven't eaten all day. Oh and veganism is something totaly irrational :P
I don't. Actually sometimes it is my problem that i don't pay much attention to what i eat. At the moment i am trying to eat more healthy but i do it by ordering box-diet which makes me give totally 0 attention to what i eat, as i just get what they send me.
I think that extensive dieting can lead to malnutrition. Sometimes some genetic conditions can lead to problems on some kinds of diets.
No idea, never heard of this before, but it looks like and addiction, addiction to eating healthy and nowadays it is too easy to fall for any addiction, even one that sound beneficial at the beginning.
2. Do you pay high attention to the quailty of food you consume? And if yes, then: do you eat whole-food all the time or you treat yourself and eat something unhealthy from time to time?
I try to select a better product based on the label but I don't have time and money to be an eating racist of some kind. I buy what I can afford and what I like. Sometime my apetite directs me to more healthy things but that's all.
3. In was sense can dieting be dangerous? What other „dieting traps” do you know?
Yes, every diet without thinking is dangerous, and every diet can be a trap if you do so called cheat days, as they can ruin your body in more restricful ones.
Anyway thank for your opinion on the topic!
I'm glad you shared your opinion :)
Thank you for your comment:)
Thank you for sharing your opinion.
2. To be honest I eat what I feel like, I try not to limit myself and do not follow what the mass media say. I owe a lot to good metabolism, which I hope will stay as long as possible. If it wasn't for it I would probably be a rolling ball :D
3. Multiple people don't know how to diet properly, they tend to cut meals and starve themselves, which is very dangerous for their health. Before beginning a diet person should visit a specialist or at least gather some information before starting it. Wrongly picked diet can ruin someones health.
I think it happening, because people are intimidated by media, where they are constantly being told what horrible foods are now and in what conditions they are being produced. Well, we can add that the development of technology has reached such level that the products are almost no longer grown/manufactured without the involvement of the chemical industry, which does not have a very good effect on human health. So we can't say that orthorexia is something bad. The main thing is not to overdo with it.
2. Do you pay high attention to the quailty of the food you consume? And if yes, then: do you eat whole foods all the time or treat yourself and eat something unhealthy from time to time?
I cannot say that I am obsessed with quality products, but I try to choose what I think had less chemical effect. However, if the product of this type is only one and not of the highest quality, but I will need it, then I will not go to the other end of the city just because I do not like anything there. And in general, I like to indulge myself from time to time with 21st century food.
3. In was sense can dieting be dangerous? What other dieting traps do you know?
Dieting is dangerous at least because no one is following a balanced diet. When dieting, you think that eliminating all foods from a ration and leaving only water will help you lose weight quickly. When dieting, you think that eliminating all foods from a ration and leaving only water will help you lose weight quickly. For a successful diet you do not have to change your ration in any way. You just have to reduce the number of certain foods and to play sport. As for other "dieting traps", I know anorexia. For some reason, everyone wants to be thinner than a skeleton. I don't know where this trend came from, but it scares me
2. There was a time when I didn't pay any attention to the quality of food I was eating. That changed after a time because I started training more intensively and I started to feel how my diet affects my daily performance and mood. Sine then I have been trying to keep a healthy lifestyle but I am not obsessed with that. I am still a fan of fast-food and all sorts of unhealthy food so I make an exception from time to time.
3. When someone doesn't know a lot about nutrition then by using restrictive diets can make more harm to the organism than good by cutting too much of specific elements.
Many people don't know that the best diet is a simple balanced died that contains all required elements from good quality ingredients. Such died should not be too restrictive at the beginning and create good eating habits that after a time starts to be natural and not painful to keep. There are many diet traps for example low-carb diets that turned out to be ineffective after research.
Not so long ago there was a topic on whether people are getting dumber. It seems to me that this may perfectly fit the description of this reason.
2. Do you pay high attention to the quailty of food you consume? And if yes, then: do you eat whole-food all the time or you treat yourself and eat something unhealthy from time to time?
Taking into account the ecological state and the growing number of cancer diseases, I try to pay attention to my health and nutrition. But to be crazy about this is already too much. I try to balance my nutrition, but I don’t push myself forcefully with vegetables, and if I want a piece of fried meat or kebabs or chips, damn it, I’ll go and buy them and the world won't collapse.
3. In was sense can dieting be dangerous? What other „dieting traps” do you know?
There are frequent cases when people who ate only raw food became infected with worms in the brain and some died of it.
2. In a way, yes. I often read labels to avoid unnecessary preservatives in my diet. In my case, I try to eat as little processed food as possible rather than just healthy.
3. What the word “diet” actually means is simply to plan the meals during the day. It can be both healthy and unhealthy. If I eat fast food every day, it will also be a form of a diet.
Thanks for sharing your opinion!
I think that nowadays the food industry is paying more attention to the quantity instead of the quality. Many products contain artificial colorants, preservatives and flavour-boosting chemicals, not to mention how many vegetables and fruits are genetically modified. We are more and more aware of the dangerous impact that this can have on our health, thanks to the internet and television, and some people take the healthy eating to the extreme.
2. Do you pay high attention to the quailty of food you consume? And if yes, then: do you eat whole-food all the time or you treat yourself and eat something unhealthy from time to time?
Usually I do not pay that much attention to the quality of the food that I eat. Quite often I order take-outs and I rely more on the flavour of the food that whether it is healthy or made from high-quality ingredients. Lately I tried to cut back on meat as I felt like I was eating too much of it and felt rather heavy.
3. In was sense can dieting be dangerous? What other „dieting traps” do you know?
In my opinion dieting can be dangerous if taken to the extreme. People tend to forget that they should listen to their bodies first and see what makes them feel healthier, lighter, more energetic etc. Nowadays, there is a lot of popular new diets like keto, paleo or raw diet, but I think people should consult dieticians before changing their eating pattern so drastically.
Thank you for your comment:)
I pay a lot of attention to the quality of the food I eat, but I try not to overdo it. In my opinion it is necessary to keep the balance in life and this is healthier than the healthiest food. I had the beginning of orthorectory, and luckily, I noticed at the time that I was starting to behave badly. I used to call off meetings with friends because I didn't want to eat unhealthy food in the city, and at Christmas I was losing Christmas magic thinking about how much sugar is in the cake.
Maintaining a healthy diet is good, but not 100%. I think it's worth following the 80/20 rule, i.e. 80% of our food is healthy and 20% is spent on pleasures and cravings. I've mentioned the diet traps above. In my opinion, it is important to remember that food is only an addition and not the meaning of life.
I haven't heard about it. Maybe modern people are not so mentally healthy and can be easily influenced by other so they get such deseases.
2. Do you pay high attention to the quailty of food you consume? And if yes, then: do you eat whole-food all the time or you treat yourself and eat something unhealthy from time to time?
I have some problems with my stomach so I have to. But I also cannot resist eating junk food periodically.
3. In was sense can dieting be dangerous? What other „dieting traps” do you know?
Every diet might be dangerous if you are not prepared for it. You should attempt them them wisely.
2. I often suffer on lack of appetite which causes me even forgetting to eat anything at all for entire day. It happens much more often than it should. When I actually already feel like eating at all I kinda just eat things that I like. It's extreamly unhealthy and I know it well. I'm trying to do something with it one step at the time but it's uneasy.
3. There are many different diets as far as I know. And from articles that I've been reading in most cases it resulted in some negative effects. Most related to limited absorption of individual nutrients. A poor diet can lead to even internal organ dysfunctions that is why it's very dangerous to change your diet entirely without detailed knowledge.
2. I don't pay attention to the quality of the food. I'm just eating whatever I like. I don't tend to ride 20 km from home to buy ingredients from a person that I trust. But I tend to ride 10 km from home to buy pancakes from a place that I like. And I like unhealthy food, but I try to balance it with healthy food, to not be fat.
3. Diets very dangerous, especially if you take it from the internet, your friends, family, or other people. People must understand that diets are very personal and can be applied only to specific persons. Diet must be created by an especially educated person, who knows you, your body, and your activities, to create a diet that will cover all your food needs and balance your ration.
2. I pay attention to what I eat. When I buy products, I look at the composition to find out if there are dyes or harmful chemical additives. I don't eat only whole-food, as my body will not have enough vitamins, which are in other products.
3. I think dieting is dangerous when you're not getting the right amount of vitamins or not getting them at all. To such diets, I can refer "color diet". According to this diet, you should eat products of the same color. For example, on Monday only red products, on Tuesday green products and so on. I think it's obvious that this way, the body doesn't get the right vitamins.
2)The whole division on "healthy" and "unhealthy" food is arbitrary and honestly always seemed to me as somewhat absurd. But being a long-time martial arts practitioner, I still have to watch out for my dietary intake of the nutrients during the day. Luckily enough, although there is a lot of contention on how exactly do it right, there seems to be a reasonable consensus on how to not do it. And there is a lot of software that makes this process very easy.
3)In the same sense as ignorance applied to the health-related choices can be dangerous. It always is better to first consult with your doctor before making any drastic decisions concerning your diet.
I think it is because more and more people are interested in what they are eating. What ingredients there is and is it a natural or chemical one. I think, it is caused from the big boom of quick, unhealthy and chemical food, which we can buy in shops or try in restaurants and all the problems, which are caused because of this food.
2. Do you pay high attention to the quality of the food you consume? And if yes, then: do you eat whole-food all the time or you treat yourself and eat something unhealthy from time to time?
I sometimes treat myself and eat something unhealthy, but overall I am trying to eat high-quality food. It is important for me, which food I am eating, which ingredients are used and how it is prepared.
3. In was sense can dieting be dangerous? What other „dieting traps” do you know?
I think all diets should be consulted with the doctor. It is the only possible way to eat without harming yourself. I heard a lot, about diet, which helped one person, but destroyed the health of another person.
2. I think that I pay normal attention to the quality of food I consume. I don't buy 'bio' or 'eco' products, because mostly it's a scam to earn money from people who can't rationally think on their own. If we eat with brain, then there's really nothing to be afraid of in normal or even 'unhealthy' food.
3. Dieting can be dangerous in every sense, it can affect somebody day, mood, mind and people around. A lot of cases of anorexia starts with a diet. Dieting groups are quite popular dieting trap. It's suppose to gather people who want to lose weight and 'guide' them through that proces, although only thing that those assistants want is to do, is selling their 'magical supplements' to participants.
I don’t know why it is happening. As for me it doesn’t matter what to eat, but I need to choose it by myself. On my opinion health is given to us to spend it. When “health bar” going to zero – we are dying. And everyone is choosing how to do this.
2) Do you pay high attention to the quality of food you consume? And if yeas, then do you eat whole-food all the time or you treat yourself and eat something unhealthy from time to time?
No, I don’t pay high attention to the food I eat every day. But as all I have some preferences. I prefer fruits and juice instead of water, I don`t eat sugar at all but sometimes I eat chocolate (only black). When I`m hungry I don`t choose, I just quench the appetite.
3) In what sense can dieting be dangerous? What other “dieting traps” do you know?
The most dangerous is psychological aspect of dieting. As I can hear, when people talk about not healthy food, they can`t accept another opinion, and saintly believe in their truth, looks like fanatism… I`m not judging, it`s only my answer, my opinion … everyone is choosing the way, and it is his way…