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✎急於吃“健康食品”或者“乾淨食品”，一旦吃了自認為“不健康”的食品就心情沮喪、壓力巨大，小心！你可能患上了完美食慾症（orthorexia nervosa）。
過度癡迷于所謂的健康食品，為了吃得健康而嚴格控制飲食和種類直到偏執的程度，從而使身體處於危險狀況的症狀，世界衛生組織把這種症狀定義為健康食品癡迷症，也稱為完美食慾症或健康食品強迫症。資料顯示，目前全球大約有28%的人口患上了這新的飲食失調症。
　　
✎The "clean eating movement" has taken the world by storm in recent years.
近些年，“飲食健康運動”風靡全球。
✎Magazines, fitness blogs and Instagram are filled with people posing with their green smoothies, kale salads and sugar-free desserts.
雜誌、健身博客和圖片分享應用Instagram上到處都是人們分享綠色果沙、甘藍沙拉、和無糖甜點的照片。
　　
✎While healthy lifestyle changes should be applauded, people have become increasingly neurotic about what they put on their plates, some experts say.
而專家提醒稱，儘管我們應該稱讚人們向健康生活方式的轉變，但人們對健康食品的執著越來越神經質了。
✎The desire to eat more healthily can veer into an obsession, with rising numbers of people - mainly women in their 30s - suffering from orthorexia nervosa.
“吃得更健康”，這一願望可能會發展成強迫症。越來越多的人們患上“完美食慾症”，尤以30多歲的女性居多。
　　
✎Orthorexics spend vast amounts of their time planning their food, resisting temptation, applauding themselves when they stick to their diet.
“完美食慾症”患者花大量時間計畫吃什麼，抵制誘惑，如果能堅持住飲食計畫就會肯定自己。
✎In its severe form, orthorexia can lead to weight loss, malnutrition and even death, experts warn.
專家警告稱，如果症狀嚴重，“完美食慾症”會導致體重下降、營養不良，甚至死亡。
　　
✎Sufferers typically cut out entire food groups – often in the mistaken belief they are unhealthy or their bodies are intolerant to them – thereby depriving themselves of essential nutrition and vitamins.
“完美食慾症”患者經常會選擇放棄整類食物---錯誤地認為這類食物不健康，或者自己的身體不耐受，因此身體就會缺乏必須的營養和維生素。
✎At the same time many over-exercise, leaving themselves weak or even emaciated.
同時很多人還過度鍛煉，把自己搞的虛弱又憔悴。
　　
✎This can leave them with low energy levels, nutritional deficiencies which can lead to depression and anxiety.
由此引發的身體低能量、營養不良又會導致抑鬱和焦慮。
✎Often, their obsession with food will stop them socialising with friends, as social event revolve around drinking and eating.
他們對食物的執著還會影響社交，因為聚會場合總免不了吃吃喝喝。
　　
你有“完美食慾症”嗎？做個小測驗吧！
☑ Do you spend more than 3 hours a day thinking about your diet?
　每天花3小時規劃飲食？
☑ Do you plan your meals several days ahead?
　提前幾天列食譜？
☑ Is the nutritional value of your meal more important than the pleasure of eating it?
　膳食的營養價值比吃東西帶來的愉悅更重要？
☑ Has the quality of your life decreased as the quality of your diet has increased?
　隨著飲食品質的提升，感到生活品質下降？
☑ Have you become stricter with yourself lately?
　最近對自己更嚴格？
☑ Does your self-esteem get a boost from eating healthily?
　吃得健康會提升自尊？
☑ Have you given up foods you used to enjoy in order to eat the 'right' foods
　為了吃健康食品，放棄了你曾喜歡吃的食品？
☑ Does your diet make it difficult for you to eat out, distancing you from family and friends? 
　因為吃健康食品，無法外出就餐，疏遠了親友？
☑ Do you feel guilty when you stray from your diet?
　沒吃健康食品時有罪惡感？
☑ Do you feel at peace with yourself and in total control when you eat healthily?
　吃得健康能使自己情緒穩定，掌控有方？
　　
測試結果：
Yes to 4 or 5 of the above questions means it is time to relax more about food.
4-5個問題回答“是”：該在飲食上放鬆放鬆了。
Yes to all of them means a full-blown obsession with eating healthy food.
全部回答“是”：徹底的“完美食慾症”！

文章來源：“完美食欲症”小測試