The disease 'ORTHOREXIA' -Beyond the horizon of Healthy Eating

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He is quite interested in eating healthy always. Whenever he goes out for purchasing the food stuff, the label and the calorific tables attract him more than the original stuff. He always consider everything and weighs the stuff against the calorific value that a particular food content injects into his body. It will be a healthy eating for him. He never looks out for any other things. What he always considers about is a healthy eating. What he is eating and following is right and slowly the tendency develops into a superiority complex and makes one stop purchasing ice creams, pizzas, burgers, and other food items as unsafe to eat and an impediment for healthy eating. He carries his own food bag and his own bottle of water. Totally stops eating outside. Never moves freely with others, never goes out, never takes children out, never participate in social gathering and slowly reaches a state of psychological superiority to prove and dub himself distinct creature among a social group and finally becomes an alien in the society. If all these characteristics indicate the term ORTHOREXIA, the most damaging effect of it lies in the fact that he starts pointing out other's food habits and other's way of eating followed by bitter criticism which will ultimately lead to social tension and loss of even friendship. In his eagerness for superiority, he even loses the needed vitamins and proteins and does not care about losing them. Hence, the excess is always bad and a faint line is imperative to maintain.