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Obsessed with healthy eating is also a disorder

EUROPA PRESS / Beauty / Health

  orthorexia is called, affecting 28% of the population of Western countries.
  consists of a comprehensive and strict control of components food.
  is a progressive silent disease that leads to social isolation.

Orthorexia is a” kind of obsessive, “which takes to extremes the idea of healthy eating that is a comprehensive control and increasingly strict food components. According to World Health Organization (WHO) affects orthorexia 28 percent of the population of Western countries and could be on the increase. Although the consequences of orthorexia depend on its severity, according to Ruben Bravo, a nutritionist and naturopath of the Medical Institute European of Obesity (IMEO), one of its features is that it is a disease, “progressive and silent, which makes the daily life of the subject is increasingly limited. So orthorexia can begin to limit much food , avoiding the consumption of red meat, eggs, sugar, dairy and fats, can impede the subject eating out and to bring him to spend 3 or more hours a day to organize your diet.
Normally, explains nutritionist IMEO, orthorexia leads to “social isolation” , since the individual “overwhelmed” if you have to attend a meal with friends or a business meal, so it tends to limit his company “to a small social circle of people who feel the same way.”

According to this expert, “these people think they are superior to those that do not follow this way of life”, so their approach is very “complex” because they often present a “false self” based on this idea of superiority and full conviction that his life is “better” than the rest. Regard to their psychological, Bravo says they are people who are “more concerned about the quality of food for the pleasure of eating. ”Therefore, spend much of their time (3 or more hours a day) to organize the diet and planned well in advance, move long distances to get special food or purely ecological, weighed, analyze its components and leave their daily activities to carry out its pathological way of life.

A patient who had chewed many times

Sat “I attended For a patient who controlled the time chewing each morsel of food 28 times because I had read in a magazine that was healthy, “says naturopath Medical Institute European of Obesity. All these rituals have a number of health consequences. In the psychological realm Bravo explains that often have “high levels of dopamine and low serotonin levels. This makes them an excess of euphoria combined with high anxiety levels.”  And in the physical aspect of health may occur showing an excess or deficiency of vitamins . Also, many of these patients show deficits in their body mass, hypertension and cardiovascular problems. Orthorexia affects mainly women and adolescents . It also has an impact on the population group of athletes, especially in people who practice bodybuilding.

Oжирения и излишнего веса

МАДРИД, 12 ноя – РИА Новости, Елена Висенс

Более 53% взрослого населения Испании страдает от ожирения и излишнего веса, с такими же проблемами сталкиваются 27,6% детей от 2 до 17 лет, говорится в пресс-релизе, опубликованном в четверг Европейским медицинским институтом по проблемам ожирения (IMEO).

По данным IMEO, ожирение является в настоящий момент второй после курения угрозой здоровью и жизни нации. Излишний вес отбирает у тучного человека не менее десяти лет жизни и может стать причиной таких заболеваний, как рак, сердечно-сосудистые болезни, заболевания печени, Альцгеймер, артрит, диабет. Многие болезни, которые раньше считались присущими старости, из-за детского ожирения начинают проявляться в возрасте 30 лет. Более 40% умерших в Испании от гриппа A/H1N1 страдали излишним весом.

«Детское ожирение – это не только проблема родителей и плохого воспитания. Оно становится серьезной социальной проблемой, и я убежден, что через несколько лет правительству, если ситуация не изменится, придется принимать общенациональную программу борьбы с этим недугом», – считает Хосе Франсиско Тинао (Jose Francisco Tinao), директор по медицинским вопросам IMEO.

По мнению Тинао, Испания, в виду резких изменений в жизни общества, произошедших за последние 30 лет, утратила культура питания, что во многом является причиной появления тучных людей, не умеющих нормально питаться.

«Если 30 лет назад испанская женщина в основной своей массе была домохозяйкой и готовила дома, то теперь большинство женщин работают наравне с мужчинами. Люди стали реже есть домашнюю пищу, чаще ходить в бистро и кафе, и часто питаются так называемой «мусорной едой» – гамбургерами, хот-догами, пиццей фабричного производства, чипсами, запивая все это различного рода газированными напитками», – уточняет медик.

По словам Тинао, еще одной причиной детского ожирения является нынешний образ жизни детей и подростков, которые мало двигаются, мало занимаются спортом, в основном сидят у телевизора или компьютера, а также социальное давление, проявляющееся в том, что если все вокруг едят «мусорную пищу», подростку трудно этого не делать.

«Ответственность за здоровье ребенка – а ожирение, это проблема здоровья – несут прежде всего родители. Ведь если ваш пятилетний ребенок захочет, к примеру, закурить, вы же ему запретите, не так ли? Так почему же вы разрешаете ему пить кока-колу и есть чипсы, вместо того, что накормить его салатом и рыбой?», – сетует Тинао.

В пример Тинао привел недавний случай, когда в суде галисийского города Оуренсе рассматривался иск к родителям девятилетнего мальчика, чей вес достигает 70 килограммов и который из-за ожирения страдает одышкой.

Суд, который еще не вынес окончательного вердикта, рассматривает возможность лишения супружеской пары родительских прав. Следующее заседание суда назначено на 16 ноября.

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The Dangers of Weight Loss Camps

Fuente: Green Tea Weight Loss

In recent years methods have become popular for weight loss drastic at all costs, such as camps, hotels and accommodation that aims to lower many kilos in a short period of time. These methods have no medical backing and are unsustainable in the long term and jeopardize the health of its participants.

This is just one of the warnings thrown by the European Medical experts from the Institute of Obesity (IMEO) concerned about this new trend. This type of restrictive diets do not have long-term effects as they have known rebound, recoup their losses and gain more kilos.

As explained Europa Press the naturopath nutrition specialist European Medical Institute of Obesity, Dr. Rubén Bravo, “these camps has resulted in a rebound effect. Because habits are not changed when changing eating anxiety and stress, causing a large extent of overweight. These camps aim to bring the body to a strong stress to lose weight too quickly which causes, when we return to daily routines, we tend to regain weight and increase by 50 percent. ”

This type of weight loss therapies have a very short time established in Spain, but countries like the U.S. and China, created decades ago.

Bravo explains, “The camps have programs between 6 and 9 weeks. They all planned, from a very restricted diet, to a hard training and exercise program and sometimes, as in Spain, the camp is taught by the military. ”

“People who undergo this type of thinning pay a lot of money – between 4,000 and 6,000 euros depending on the program-to make them grind them up early and restrict their diet,” adds the expert.

HEALTH HAZARD

On the one hand there is a risk because they are people who are not accustomed to playing sports, and are subject to an exercise of a high athletic level. They also tend to cardiovascular disease or diabetes, thus subjected to a strong exercise is dangerous for your health.

Instead, experts say it is necessary to institute start exercising slowly for the body to adapt. In the case of obese people need to control their heart rate, increases do not occur very high above 180 beats, and that poses a risk to your health.

The body of an adult needs to eat up a minimum amount of calories varies between 1,200 and 1,400 and, for the sake of his health, should not fall under these limits. If, on the one hand, it provides a high caloric expenditure based on an intense exercise that borders the 2,000 calories and, on the other hand, eating fewer than 1,000 calories a day with a restrictive diet, go into a large deficit can slow metabolism, says Bravo.

They should also be noted that if the person has an overweight of over 20 kilos and has over 55 years increases the risk to their health, being able to cause injury and cardiovascular disease, hypoglycemia, lowered blood pressure, dizziness, trauma an eating disorder and especially a certain rebound.

Data on these camps in Spain are very rare but if taken as a reference made in North America, usually divided by gender and age and there are specialized camps for teenagers.

All the experts emphasize the negative health consequences that have this kind of camps. Bravo recalls that “the secret of maintaining physical fitness is a balanced diet based on some simple guidelines, like avoiding the excesses and hyper caloric meals and distribute food according to the biorhythm of the body: take the carbohydrates in the breakfast, mid morning fruit and let the vegetables and proteins for food, snack and dinner. ”

So if you are looking for the fast ways to lose weight in a week, just make sure its safe.

Beware tapas and cañas abuse during the summer

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Abuse of caps and canes, so prevalent during the summer holidays, can lead to diseases such as obesity, diabetes or cholesterol, the low nutritional value, high caloric value, and difficult to digest this type of food, the Medical Institute European of obesity (IMEO), which has offered a series of recommendations to enjoy this tradition without compromising the body warned Wednesday.

To combine enjoyment with the protection of the health of the people in the summer, the IMEO recommends to increase physical activity, drink around two litres and a half of water a day and plan the meal hours, combining fruit and low-fat foods.

Also it is advisable to give priority to protein-rich food such as seafood and fish, true to the saying “eat breakfast like a King, eat like a Prince and dinner like a beggar”.

The lovers of beer, nutritionists are invited to toggle their consumption options light or ‘zero’ and with other soft drinks, while ice cream fans encouraged to ingest landlords with yogurt without fat, as well as fruit and soft drinks that are low in calories.

According to the IMEO dietitian and spokesperson for the entity, Rubén Bravo, in summer we eat less, but “bad”, due to the intake of fried foods, sweets, sauces, Furthermore, generate heavy digestions and disrupt healthy eating habits.

To prevent this from happening, the nutritionist has advised to seek a balance between food and physical activity, and has emphasized that “it is not much less than be to diet on vacation or”.

IMEO en los medios

Desde el noviembre del 2009 hasta el agosto del 2012, el Instituto Médico Europeo de la Obesidad ha salido en más de 1.100 medios digitales, 40 veces en televisión y 100 veces en programas de radio. Gracias a sus punteras campañas de comunicación, I.M.E.O. ha sido el centro médico de obesidad de referencia, citado tanto por la prensa nacional, como la extranjera con:

– Más de 40 apariciones en prime time en las noticias en 11 cadenas de Televisión: TVE1, Telemadrid, la Sexta, Telecinco, Antena3, CNN, Canal Cuatro, Intereconomía TV, Rai Uno, RTV de Castilla y León y la Televisión local de Toledo.

– Participación en más de 100 programas en emisoras de máxima audiencia: RNE, Onda Madrid, Radio Exterior de España, Radio Internacional de Francia, Radio Nacional de Rumanía, Radio Popular de Bilbao, Canal Extremadura, Onda Cero, ABC Punto Radio, Cadena Ser, COPE, Kiss FM, Radio de Canarias, Radio Caracol de Miami, Radio de Argentina, EFE Radio, etc.  

– Difusión en más de 1.100 medios digitales en 9 idiomas: castellano, inglés, ruso, portugués, gallego, catalán, italiano, francés y rumano.

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Nuestra filosofía

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Conócenos de cerca

El Instituto Médico Europeo de la Obesidad (IMEO) se creó en el año 2001 como un centro médico especializado, como apoyo y solución a los que sufren de la enfermedad. En el programa Empresas con identidad, su Directora Ejecutiva, Carmen Arribas, explica la filosofía de esta entidad que no se ha visto afectada por la crisis.

– Llevo 30 años en el mundo de la sanidad; he dedicado los últimos 10 a personas afectadas por la obesidad y me siento cómplice en cada una de sus victorias. Saber escuchar y actuar de forma independiente es fundamental en la salud. Estar al frente del Instituto Médico Europeo de la Obesidad, es un reto de continua mejora. No nos engañemos, una persona obesa NO piensa que contratando un Balón o Banda Gástricos compra un producto. Somos profesionales de la salud, no mercaderes y ofrecemos resultados.

En un mismo centro ofrecemos soluciones, desde la endocrinología, la fisioterapia, la sicología hasta la cirugía bariátrica. Nuestro trabajo exige mucha dedicación. Sabemos que el escalón más alto en la jerarquía lo ocupa el paciente. Su salud y seguridad es lo primero.

En el IMEO premiamos la confianza. Queremos que aquí la gente se siente como en casa, desde el momento que entra por la puerta. La crisis no nos afecta, porque la obesidad es una enfermedad con un alto índice de mortalidad. Pasamos a tener de 5 empleados en el año 2001 a 38 ahora. Estamos continuamente innovando y a la última.

Invertimos el 20% del beneficio en tecnología e innovación y un 10% en bien social. El objetivo no es facturar más, éste es el resultado. Si ofrecemos los mejores precios en el mercado, es porque detrás hay una labor importante de negociación.