{"id":87,"date":"2017-01-09T11:41:01","date_gmt":"2017-01-09T11:41:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blog.buprojects.uk\/2016-2017\/abigailthomas\/?p=87"},"modified":"2017-01-22T12:59:18","modified_gmt":"2017-01-22T12:59:18","slug":"eating-disorders-clean-eating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.buprojects.uk\/2016-2017\/abigailthomas\/2017\/01\/09\/eating-disorders-clean-eating\/","title":{"rendered":"Eating Disorders and Clean Eating"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/h4>\n

‘DIRTY’ AND ‘UNCLEAN’ FOOD<\/span><\/h3>\n

Clean eating encourages people to eat more fruit, vegetables, \u2018whole foods\u2019 and unprocessed foods. As mentioned in my first blog post<\/span><\/a>\u00a0this trend demonises any other foods as \u2018unclean\u2019 and therefore \u2018dirty\u2019.<\/span><\/p>\n

This can lead to disordered eating as it unloads feelings of guilt onto people who don\u2019t eat restrictively. However, these \u2018dirty\u2019 by unqualified bloggers may be necessary as part of a nutritionally balanced diet.<\/span><\/p>\n

As stated by Coco Whittaker<\/a><\/span>, \u201c\u2018healthy\u2019 food is held up for display and approval\u2014 it is celebrated as an aesthetic object above all else.\u201c<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

WHAT DOES HEALTH MEAN?<\/span><\/h3>\n

Those who eat clean\u00a0change their lifestyle with the aim of being healthy. But what does it mean to be healthy? The definition of health is the \u2018state of being free from illness or injury\u2019. Where has the confusion of cleanliness come from?<\/span><\/p>\n

\"health\"

The Google definition of health is the state of being free from illness or injury<\/p><\/div>\n

THE DANGER OF CLEAN EATING<\/span><\/h3>\n

Clean eating is a restrictive diet due to the nature of cutting certain foods out completely. Due to the vast amount of rules and guidelines, many eat cleaners deciding what food to cut out of their diet themselves.\u00a0In an interview,\u00a0Dr Mark Berelowitz<\/a><\/span> said \u201c80%-90% of his patients at the Royal Free Hospital in north London followed clean eating diets, which exclude sugar, meat, dairy products, carbohydrates and gluten.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\"pexels-photo-41123\"<\/span><\/p>\n

Similarly, this lifestyle is frequently being used to mask eating disorders such as anorexia.<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Fiona Hunter<\/a><\/span> a qualified consultant nutritionalist, “There’s a real concern that this\u00a0helps young women mask an underlying eating disorder. It’s more acceptable to say ‘I don’t eat gluten’ than to say ‘I don’t want to eat that cake.'”<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

ORTHOREXIA\u00a0AND CLEAN EATING<\/span><\/h3>\n

Steven Bratman<\/a><\/span>\u00a0defined Orthorexia in 1996. It is the medical term for a condition of having an unhealthy obsession with maintaining\u00a0a healthy diet.<\/span><\/p>\n

The fixation of food quality and purity is a major part of clean eating. Long-term dangerous physical and psychological effects can be caused such as osteoporosis (linked to not having enough calcium in their diet) and extreme cases<\/a> <\/span>of nutritional deficiencies.<\/span><\/p>\n

Sufferers of Orthorexia develop\u00a0anxiety about where the next meal will come from, the ingredients and how it\u2019s cooked. This takes all the pleasure out of eating and can cause people to eat less.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Abbey

Abbey is a Registered Dietician, Food Blogger and TV Personality from Toronto.<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

Abbey<\/a><\/span> from the blog ‘Abbey\u2019s Kitchen’ wrote about her personal experience on her blog, \u201cEvery day I lived with orthorexia eating disorders, the leash would just get shorter, and the rules would become more stringent. If I were to \u201cslip up\u201d and accidentally eat yogurt with added sugar, I would feel horrible about myself.\u201d She claims food blogging played a huge part in recovering from Orthorexia.<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

If you think you may have an eating disorder such as Orthorexia\u00a0\u00a0please seek help from a clinical psychologist.<\/span><\/p>\n

Please remember that no food is \u2018dirty\u2019; it is important to listen to your body and eat the food you\u2019re craving!<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

‘DIRTY’ AND ‘UNCLEAN’ FOOD Clean eating encourages people to eat more fruit, vegetables, \u2018whole foods\u2019 and unprocessed foods. As mentioned in my first blog post\u00a0this trend demonises any other foods as \u2018unclean\u2019 and therefore \u2018dirty\u2019. This can lead to disordered eating as it unloads feelings of guilt onto people who don\u2019t eat restrictively. However, these […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":111,"featured_media":243,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,3],"tags":[6,8,11,25,26,24,23],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.buprojects.uk\/2016-2017\/abigailthomas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.buprojects.uk\/2016-2017\/abigailthomas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.buprojects.uk\/2016-2017\/abigailthomas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.buprojects.uk\/2016-2017\/abigailthomas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/111"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.buprojects.uk\/2016-2017\/abigailthomas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.buprojects.uk\/2016-2017\/abigailthomas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":365,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.buprojects.uk\/2016-2017\/abigailthomas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions\/365"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.buprojects.uk\/2016-2017\/abigailthomas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.buprojects.uk\/2016-2017\/abigailthomas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.buprojects.uk\/2016-2017\/abigailthomas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.buprojects.uk\/2016-2017\/abigailthomas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}