Jackie C
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Anorexia nervosa is an illness that usually occurs in teenage girls, but it can also occur in teenage boys, and adult women and men. People with anorexia are obsessed with being thin. They lose a lot of weight and are terrified of gaining weight. They believe they are fat even though they are very thin. Anorexia isn't just a problem with food or weight. It's an attempt to use food and weight to deal with emotional problems.
People with anorexia starve themselves, avoid high-calorie foods and exercise constantly. |
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hooded_beauty
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It should be noted that the term "anorexia" literally means absence of appetite. For example, severe anorexia is common in the elderly, who may experience weight loss because of social isolation, impaired gastrointestinal function, or loss of certain chemicals related to the feeding drive. Such anorexia, however, is not synonymous with anorexia nervosa, which is a psychologic disorder.
Anorexia nervosa involves an aversion to food that leads to a state of starvation and emaciation. Facts associated with anorexia nervosa include:
At least 15% to as much as 60% of normal body weight is lost.
The patient with anorexia nervosa has an intense fear of gaining weight, even when he or she is severely underweight.
Individuals with anorexia nervosa have a distorted image of their own weight or shape and deny the serious health consequences of their low weight.
Women with anorexia nervosa miss at best three consecutive periods. (It should be noted that some experts believe women can be anorexic without this occurrence.)
Patients with the condition are often characterized as anorexia restrictors or anorexic bulimic patients. Each type is about equally prevalent.
Anorexia restrictors reduce their weight by severe dieting.
Anorexic bulimic patients maintain emaciation by purging. Although both types are serious, the bulimic type, which imposes additional stress on an undernourished body, is the more damaging.
It should be noted that the term "anorexia" literally means absence of appetite. For example, severe anorexia is common in the elderly, who may experience weight loss because of social isolation, impaired gastrointestinal function, or loss of certain chemicals related to the feeding drive. Such anorexia, however, is not synonymous with anorexia nervosa, which is a psychologic disorder. |
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Tara
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it's a condition where people think of themselves as being too fat or overweight and they force themselves to vomit because they're afraid that what they eat will cause them to gain weight. |
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Cool Guy
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Anorexia is an eating disorder where people starve themselves. Anorexia usually begins in young people around the onset of puberty. Individuals suffering from anorexia have extreme weight loss. Weight loss is usually 15% below the person's normal body weight. People suffering from anorexia are very skinny but are convinced that they are overweight. Weight loss is obtained by many ways. Some of the common techniques used are excessive exercise, intake of laxatives and not eating. |
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zen
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anorexia |
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rx_serotonin
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Literally it means lack of appetite. Both types are are there. Psychologiacal anorexia- called as anorexia nervosa ,and due to some disease codition- anorexia due to somatic reasons |
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strangeanswerer
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It is a psychicval disease that makes one person not interested in eating anymore. In severe cases he/she might NOT be able to eat anything. Has to do with traumas, dicvorce, loss of identity, etc |
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xdannifenx
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There are many types of anorexia, although they all indicate using some starving type of technique to get skinnier. People can refuse to eat, throw up the food that they eat, or eat too less =( |
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mon-star
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anorexia is when someone does not eat as much as they should. basically they try to not eat anything at all. it is a very serious problem that many young girls are going through because of the images portrayed in the media of how a girl should look like. it really is such a sad thing when every single person has to be a certain way to be beautiful. everyone is beautiful and they don't need to change to be beautiful. |
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isabelle
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ppl that hardly ever eat and do a lot of sport...
it's an addiciton |
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