AVALIAÇÃO DO RISCO PARA DESENVOLVIMENTO DE ORTOREXIA NERVOSA EM ALUNOS DE DUAS ACADEMIAS DE MUSCULAÇÃO DE TRÊS PONTAS - MG

Abstract

The cult of beauty and the lean body propagated by the media places aesthetics as the main factor of personal satisfaction and status, increasing the number of people who seek a healthier diet, however, often exaggeratedly, and can become a disorder to feed. Ortorexia nervosa (ON) is a relatively new disorder, not yet recognized as an eating disorder, individuals are obsessed with food classified as healthy and exclude from food the foods seen as harmful to health. In view of the above problem, the present study has as main objective to evaluate the risks for the development of orthorexia nervosa in practitioners of two bodybuilding academies of Três Pontas-MG. Socioeconomic status, nutritional status, perception of body image, risk for ON development and feeding frequency of participants were evaluated. It was verified that the socioeconomic condition is related to ON, more than half (55%) of the evaluated ones were eutrophic and 68.33% were within the hip waist ratio recommendation. Body dissatisfaction was found to be predominant in 73.3% of those evaluated, using the ORTO-15 questionnaire used to classify the ON, it was possible to verify that 72% of them presented with the risk for ON. The consumption of in natura and minimally processed foods was higher than food not considered healthy, thus showing the possible orthorexic behavior. It is important to emphasize that ON is still a new subject, needing to be deepened through more studies and parameters as a way of prevention and dissemination.