Anorexia is an eating disorder where people starve themselves.
Anorexia usually begins in young people around the onset of puberty. Individuals suffering from anorexia have extreme weight loss. Weight loss is usually 15% below the person’s normal body weight. People suffering from anorexia are very skinny but are convinced that they are overweight.
Weight loss is obtained by many ways. Some of the common techniques used are excessive exercise, intake of laxatives and not eating.
Anorexics have an intense fear of becoming fat. Their habits develop from this fear. Anorexia mainly affects adolescent girls.
People with anorexia continue to think they are overweight even after they become extremely thin, are very ill or near death. Often they will develop strange eating habits such as refusing to eat in front of other people. Sometimes the individuals will prepare big meals for others while refusing to eat any of it.
Latest research on human brain realized by scientists from Pittsburg University show that anorexia is closely connected to cerebral activity. According to the researches, a woman from one hundred with age comprised between 15 and 30 suffer from this affection.
According to an experiment which included 13 healthy women and 13 women who suffered from this disease and recovered after it, it has been discovered that areas from the brain responsible with emotional responses show major differences when they were losing of winning something.
In the case of those women who recovered from anorexia, the differences were barely noticeable. Anorexic people have difficulties in appreciating pleasure with promptitude. Another area of the brain responsible with notions’ anticipations and planning was more active to anorexic women than to healthy women.
Those persons who suffer from anorexia have obsessive concerns regarding their behavior, they search for rules even where there are no rules and exaggerate the mistakes they make.
February 14th, 2008 at 6:04 pm
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Every girl I know who has had an eating disorder at one point or another has never really meant to starve herself to death. And the guys I know of who have also had eating disorders in order to maintain, or lose weight for a football team, or wrestling…
May 4th, 2008 at 10:56 pm
omg that is wow trampy
June 19th, 2008 at 10:04 am
i am anorexic
i think im fat
i only eat lettuce and diet coke
it worked
for luisel ramos
so why cant it work for me???
i am a boy
but i think i am overweight
all my friends say i skinny but i cant believe them because i just know im fat
June 19th, 2008 at 10:06 am
anorexic people are stupid b****es who need to get over themselves
they only do it for attention
September 22nd, 2008 at 6:54 pm
i think annorexic people are really influenced by thin models and celebs.
Teenage girls and boys who get teased about their weight or think they look overweight are likely to develope annorexia. This issue is so sad and people need to get help because the disease is killing them, even though they think it looks good. I can’t stand the look of annorexic people because it makes me so sad to think that they are wasting their lives trying to lose weight and killing themselves while their at it.
October 7th, 2008 at 10:37 pm
This article was okay but also incomplete. I’m in recovery from anorexia. I’ve had it for over 25 years with periods of recovery that can last as long as a few years at a time. Statistics also show that many anorexics have been sexually abused and their lives get out of control and food is one thing they can control in their lives. I wanted to quietly disappear (without consciously realizing that’s what I wanted to do). So to people like James who posted above, I won’t say he’s the “stupid” one, just uninformed! Try walking a mile in someone else’s shoes first before you cast stones. As for models and media, maybe they inspire young people to want to lose weight, but you can’t “catch” anorexia. Most of the people who start a diet to look like their favorite TV star will quit after a week or two. I believe you are predisposed to it or it is trauma-based. I’m no expert. Just someone who has been in and out of a lot of treatment centers and thus, around a lot of different people with eating disorders.
November 19th, 2008 at 9:47 pm
[…] In the last couple of years, an obsession for diets spread among women. It is natural to hate being overweight, but drastic measures, with draconic diets and severe nutritional mistakes lead to anorexia. […]