Once in people's lives it is seen that there are pretty and simple photos of food on Facebook news feeds or Instagram feeds - be it the regular home-cooked meals prepared creatively or the delicately served food from restaurants and food establishments.
Several blogs and pages dedicated to healthy and organic food have sprouted around the web, encouraging people to eat in a certain manner such as vegan, organic, clean and most importantly, healthy. This trend has gathered millions of faithful followers, even continuing success into books and shows. Recently, a study has been published online about a certain eating disorder, and amusingly, it is a disorder or an obsession with eating "clean and healthy."
But how was this supposedly healthy trend became an eating disorder?
A doctor first gave it recognition and a name, Steve Bratman. He said it all started as an idea or as something to tell to his patients who persistently come to him about their diets, an increasingly obsessive trend, as he told the New York Times in 2009. "I would tell them, 'You're addicted to health food.' It was my way of having them not take themselves so seriously," as he defines it, othorexia is a disorder distinct from anorexia or bulimia.
It's not the diet that's the problem - it's the obsession that accompanies it. And unlike most other eating disorders, the orthorexic's objective isn't weight loss. It's purity. He added that, "The orthorexic's inner life becomes dominated by efforts to resist temptation, self-condemnation for lapses, self-praise for sublonde Vegan) ccess at complying with the self-chosen regime, and feelings of superiority over others lethe ss pure in their dietary habits," as he had put it in his 1997 essay where he first used the term.
The recent fascination with orthorexia started when a blogger named Jordan Younger admitted that her healthy eating has become an obsession. Her blog was centered on the culture of "clean" and "plant-based" lifestyle, lost almost half a million followers after she confessed that her habit became an obsession and endangered her health.
