The physical, psychic and social consequences on people with orthorexia nervous

Abstract

The nervous orthorexia is a behavior characterized by too much concern with healthy eating. Individuals who possess it are not concerned about their body weight or with the amount of food they eat, their main focus is the types of foods that are part of your meals. Through this, such individuals now have a selective feeding and directed to certain foods considered healthy, pure and with the absence of certain elements. The aim of this article is to conceptualize nervous orthorexia characterizing it, pointing out the symptoms and the reasons for the low dimension of studies on this condition, and specifically covering the effects of the disease, which, for now, is not consideredan eating disorder. Therefore, the methodology used in the study was bibliographic presenting results in a selective power that can generate the lack of certain nutrients in the body, involving several consequences which may be physical, mental and / or social. However, there are ways to prevent it through psychoeducation and transmission of correct information, for it is a new eating behavior.