🔶 the nightmare of the purity of the plate; When healthy eating becomes a lonely cage

🔶 the nightmare of the purity of the plate; When healthy eating becomes a lonely cage

Before leaving for the party, he wonders what the host's cooking oil is, whether the vegetables used are organic and without pesticides, whether the salt and spices used meet his strict standards. In the end, either he stops the party and prefers to stay at home so as not to lose control of his kitchen, or if he goes, he sits with a dish of home-cooked food in his ears, looking at other people's plates with a look full of judgment and anxiety, and inside he is mixed with a paralyzing pang of conscience.

This image is the tangible reality of the lives of those whose extreme obsession with healthy eating has taken their lives hostage.

Orthorexia is not just a simple abstinence from food or a love of eating vegetables. It is a profound psychosomatic disorder in which the person's mind is locked in cycles of obsessive thoughts and extreme perfectionism.