Rhiannon Lambert, who treats about 180 clients a year with various kinds of eating disorders, says the number of those caused by "clean eating"(double) in the past three years. "They develop particular habits, or won't eat food when walking, because they think that food can only be eaten when they(seat)," she said.
Clean eating is promoted by some food bloggers, who are increasingly thought by a number of medical experts to be having a bad influence on young people today. "Young people lose this and cannot afford the lifestyle needed to follow it," Lambert said. Health bloggersnot have enough knowledge but offer dangerous advice. These people are now role modelsword will inspire young people. I have clients who think they have to be a strict vegetarian to be successful. The extreme form of this is known asorthorexia nervosa(健康食品强迫症).
Ursula Philpot, a dietitian at the British Dietetic Association, said, "It is difficult to blame them completely. If it weren't the bloggers, then it could beelse. Orthorexia affects more girls than boys, although boys are much more affected than girls." Philpot said, "At the top of most people's lists of bad foods includesgluten(麸质) and dairy.you talk to young people more, you will find some of them worry all day about eating a biscuit."
The condition starts out as an attempt(eat) more healthily, but those who experience it fully focus on food quality and purity. "There may be several reasons for someone to take up clean eating," Philpot said. "Eating disorders are serious mental illnesses and their causes are complex. Research is telling us that they may be more biologically based than we thought,social and environmental factors also play a part in their development."
Deanne Jade, the founder of the National Centre for Eating Disorders, said, "A lot of young people don't think they need treatment and there are too many messages in the media. What worries me is that a lot of people(promote) these ideas have no knowledge of nutrition. I don't know what the solution is, but in many cases, getting people to recover from an eating disorder means(get) them to relax their ideas about clean eating."
