Anorexia is a disorder typified by self-starvation. It occurs most commonly among adolescent females but is also observed in older women and in men. For reasons that are not known, in recent years anorexia nervosa has become more common, and the percentage among young women in the United States may be as high as 1 percent.
The disorder may appear when a young woman leaves home, or it may develop in connection with mental depression, peer pressure to lose weight or
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