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Surely you've heard already about orthorexia. And if not, here you platicare more about this disease so common today. Orthorexia is an eating disorder where the individual has an obsession with eating healthy food. Unlike anorexia which is loss of appetite, orthorexia is an obsession with a proper appetite. Some of the consequences of this disease are malnutrition and death by starvation and among its symptoms found that individuals who suffer from it have strict rules in their habits when they eat. The labelling of every product turns out to be essential when it comes to eating, as this labelling is what mainly guides the consumer ortorexic to consume this or that product. The patients, ortorexicos usually have different perceptions of food according to its labeling. Those containing preservatives, tend to consider them as dangerous, while the produced industrial prove to be for artificial according to them, and those that correspond to products produced biologically according to its labeling, are healthy, that is, the ones who are obliged to consume.

There are several studies that express those ortorexicas people do not have a well-defined profile, but usually are athletes or bodybuilders. If you know someone with these features or if you which feels related to what already before I mentioned, seek help; It is never late to take the first step.