Anorexia has been identified as on the rise in the West, in societies which themselves are increasingly obsessed with food, diet, shape and body image. Anorexia Nervosa is said to arise in a culture that makes eating a problematic conversion of nature by culture.
Anorexia Nervosa can be described as involving the gross and inappropriate entanglement of two issues on the one hand, weight and eating control, and, on the other, what might be described as personal and emotional control. From this, it can be seen that Anorexia Nervosa is not simply a ‘weight phobia’
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