Anorexia Nervosa
Anorexia Nervosa plays a big role in our society today. Anorexia affects mostly girls and women (90-95%), it can also affect boys and men. “Anorexia Nervosa is a mental disorder in which one drastically reduces their caloric intake and often increases their physical activity to effect dramatic unhealthy weight loss” (book). In our paper we will discuss what anorexia nervosa is, what causes it, how it affects people’s life, and what treatments you can get to help stop anorexia.
Anorexia is more than just a problem with food. It’s a way of using food or starving oneself to feel more in control of life and to ease tension, anger, and anxiety. Someone with anorexia may use extreme measures to lose weight by making her or himself throw up, taking pills to urinate or have a bowel movement, taking diet pills, not eating or eating very little, exercising a lot even in bad weather or when hurt or tired, weighing food and counting calories, or moving food around......
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