I feel so sorry for poor old Gazza and I can't bear to read about him in the rags.It's such crap that they write that there is no wonder that he's gone crackers.! However there was a very good article in the daily telegraph which explored his obsessions and addictions in a proper considered way. Whilst reading it I kept coming across the word "ORTHOREXIA". I didn't know the meaning of this word so I had to look it up. The following is just a summary of what it means.
(1) A fastidious preoccupation with the purity of their food which leads to the disorder "orthorexia nervosa"
(2) A fixation on what to eat becomes an all consuming lifestyle.
(3) Sufferers are so concerned with what's "Good "food and what's "Bad" food that their diet suffers
(4) Because the act of eating is so stressful it can lead to the breakdown of relationships and can lead to social isolation.
(5) Orthorexics binge on chocolates etc and then feel guilty.
Orthorexics are solely concerned with the quality of their food. They obsess over salt content and E numbers, refuse to eat sugar and fat, and have such a hang up about healthy eating that it restricts their diet and can, paradoxically make them undernourished.
They also take a certain enjoyment from refusing food in front of others, as a way of demonstrating their superior commitment to the purity of what they eat.
Orthorexics feel special and different because of their eating habits. like any eating disorder there are degrees to which people are affected but it is becoming a widespread and worrying phenomenon.
Dr. Alex Yellowleaves, Medical director of the Priory clinics said " like other eating disorders, the issue at the heart of it all is obsession. We are constantly bombarded about what's healthy and what isn't that orthorexics don't know what to believe and so lose their sense of perspective and what begins as an affectation, can and will in some cases, progress to an illness.
Is this ringing any bells for anyone?
Any way good luck Gazza !! I love you for what you were not what you have become.
love Sheila xx
2 comments:
From what I saw of what Gazza, it just seemed like larking about, much the same way he'd always done.
I agree that it's awful the way the PRESS are treating him, note I don't say media, because not all media behave like the tabloids.
I think the same is true of Britney Spears, poor girl is clearly nots and yet they hound her.
So me and Gazza are in the same boat eh Sheila? I'm not sure about that one. Sounds like England is getting the "disease" syndrome that America has...anything slightly wrong with someone and they figure out a disease as to what's wrong with them. It won't be long before they have the "Restless Leg Syndrome" and the side effects of gambling or extra sex that is brought on by the pills like they do here.
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