"Eating Disorders are health problems characterized by extremely harmful eating patterns," according to Nutrition and Fitness encyclopedia. Eating disorders are very common among American women. Between five and ten million people have eating disorders in America. One to four percent of all young women will develop some sort of eating disorder. The two most common types are anorexia (a.k.a. anorexia nervosa) and bulimia (a.k.a. bulimia nervosa). They are two different types with different symptoms and causes but they are sometimes combined. One might have one which leads to developing the other
No one is really sure what causes eating disorders, although there are many theories as to why people develop them. One theory that has been suggested is that anorexia nervosa is caused by a disorder in the part of the mid-brain, called the hypothalamus, that is concerned with the linkage between emotions and the nervous system and controls such functions as hunger, thirst, and sexual......
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