Friday, March 4, 2011

Obsession with body: the theory of Susie Orbach

"Once a week strafogati you want, but other days not to give up salads and spinning." Mel B, former Spice Girls, superforms mother of two children, and personal trainer of the new video game dedicated to fitness & nutrition (Get Fit With Mel B), does not feel a victim of the perfect body. "Just be the best version of themselves: if the surgery is ok, provided it is reasonable ....».

But if she makes it easy, someone invites you to pull the handbrake: Susie Orbach, psychotherapist and writer English (remember body?), Which these days begins his courses at the School of Life in London (and also on Twitter) with the goal of teaching just to "enjoy the last body," as it is.


With creativity, a little 'attention, but also a healthy sense of limits. "And I would say even with less fear," says Luisa Stagi, a sociologist at the University of Genoa, author of Antibodies. Diet, Fitness and other prisons (Franco Angeli). "Who suffers Vigorexia or gym is too much, actually tries to tackle the sense of uncertainty about the future by focusing its review on the only area in which it can intervene: the body.

One of the most obvious is that dependencies of 40-year racing, spinning and other sports with high production of endorphins. If a workout among other things, leave no time for recovery, the benefits become risks. See for example Sharon Stone's syndrome, so named because the actress has had (apparently) a stroke from overtraining.

" Taking care of yourself so obsessed with an excess of physical activity (which also accelerates aging) is equivalent to the choice to eat only healthy food and get sick of orthorexia. "It happens to addicts of the pure and pristine, extremists in the use of laxatives and diuretics, in the rituals of cleanliness and sense of duty," says Laura Belloni, director of the Center for Eating Disorders of San Raffaele in Milan.

"It is women aged 15 to 30 who never touch a carbohydrate and eat only salad." The border with the disease? "Freedom of choice: the dependence is lost." Only one of the 10 test questions created in Health Food Junkies by Robert Bratman, a physician and former U.S. orthorexic. It is the beauty addiction, say Susie Orbach, who makes us live the "body as impossible dream."

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