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Obsessing over food leads to mental disorders

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Doctors have been raising the alarm that the number of mental disorders connected with our diet has been growing.

Assoc. Prof. Daniela Popova from Sofia’s Queen Giovanna Hospital says that obsessing over food ingredients – constantly looking for healthy food components, focusing on fat and salt content, non-acceptance of anything but organic food - can lead to orthorexia and bigorexia. “Such people are obsessed with counting calories and looking for a certain kind of food but this disrupts their normal social life and they become manic,” she says. 



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