Insatisfacción corporal y su relación con ortorexia en personas que realizan ejercicio

Abstract

Body dissatisfaction is linked to the negative evaluation that a person gives to him/herself, so it is common to wish to change his/her body shape and therefore implement activities such as physical exercise and diets; orthorexia is a syndrome of recent appearance that is distinguished by the obsession to consume healthy food; since this is a relatively new term in the literature, this publication aims to study the correlation between body dissatisfaction and orthorexia in people who perform physical exercise. The research is non-experimental, descriptive correlational, cross-sectional, quantitative and bibliographic. With the participation of 126 women of the nutrition and dietetics career divided into two groups, who perform <150 and ≥150 minutes of physical exercise per week. The results obtained denied the existence of a correlation between body dissatisfaction and orthorexia, in the participants no body dissatisfaction was found and orthorexia was ruled out, likewise no significant difference was found between the two time groups in comparison to each of the variables. Thus demonstrating that the participants of the study are satisfied with their body shape and at the same time maintain a good eating relationship.