Anerexia Nervosa This report is on the disorder Anorexia Nervosa, better known as Anorexia, a critical disorder that affects many teenagers. Anorexia Nervosa is an eating disorder characterized by constant dieting, rapid weight loss and the feeling of being to fat during weight loss. The term "Anorexia Nervosa" means loss of appetite due to nervousness, but the people with anorexia do not actually lose their appetite until the late stages of their starvation.People afflicted by anorexia have an extreme fear of gaining weight. ... Anorexia Nervosa occurs much more frequently in fe...

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This is why Anorexia and Bulimia are on the rise in our nation today. ... Anorexia affects two out of every one hundred teenage girls; bulimia affects three out of every one hundred teenage girls. Both anorexia and bulimia are essentially slimming eating disorders, where the individual aims at loosing weight. Sufferers of anorexia nervosa and bulimia often suffers from mind/body dualism in which the mind neglects and tries to take control of the body by telling the body it does not require further food intake, so as to stay "slim" and "thin" and be socially acceptable (http://zine.dal.net/edit...

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Anorexia nervosa is an eating disorder that is characterized by individuals who starve themselves even after becoming dangerously thin, have an intense fear of becoming obese, and usually do not express a loss of appetite. ...

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Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia Nervosa are the two most common types of eating disorders. Some signs of anorexia are a refusal to maintain body weight at or above a minimally normal weight for age and height. Weight loss that leads to a body weight of less than 85% of that expected is typical of anorexia (Costin, 1997). ...

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