what is anorexia?

Answer 1

It is a eating disorder characterized by a refusal to eat, even to the point of starvation. Other symptoms include an intense fear of becoming fat that never goes away, no matter how thin the individual becomes; extreme overactivity and an obsession with working out; negative feelings about the way the body looks; deep feelings of shame; and problems with the way the body looks; deep feelings about and problems with drug and/ or alcohol abuse. Starvation tends to increase feelings of depression, anxiety, irritability, and anger. It may take up to a year or more for a person recovering from anorexia to improve his or her body image, to reestablish normal eating patterns, and to reverse the effects of starvation on mood and behavior.

Answer 2

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.

Answer 3

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 dieting habits develop from this fear. Anorexia mainly affects adolescent girls.

Answer 4

Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia Nervosa
The two most common types of eating disorders are anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa, more commonly known as anorexia and bulimia. The two disorders can be difficult to distinguish from each other because they have similar characteristics: With both anorexia and bulimia, the person will have a distorted image of his or her body. That person will seem to be obsessed with what he or she eats.

Both anorexia and bulimia tend to affect girls more than guys, but 10% of the people with eating disorders are guys. And, because we typically think of eating disorders as only affecting girls, they often go unrecognized in guys. Guys with eating disorders also tend to focus more on athletic appearance or success than on just looking thin.

People with anorexia have an intense fear of being fat. When a person has anorexia, he or she hardly eats at all — and the small amount of food that is eaten becomes an obsession. A person with anorexia may weigh food before eating it or compulsively count the calories of everything. It is not unusual for a person with anorexia to also exercise excessively in an attempt to lose weight.

A unique feature of anorexia is not only the strong desire to be very thin, but also the altered body perception that goes with it. Even though they might be shedding pounds at a dangerous rate, people with anorexia don't see themselves as thin. A person with the condition can look in the mirror and actually see a fat person.

Bulimia is a bit different from anorexia because the person with bulimia doesn't avoid eating. Instead, he or she eats a large amount of food then gets rid of it quickly by vomiting or taking laxatives. This is commonly known as "binge and purge" behavior. Like anorexia, bulimia tends to affect girls and young women more than guys. Unlike anorexia, you can't always tell by looking whether a person has bulimia. In fact, someone with bulimia may appear average or even above average in weight.

Answer 5

Anorexia is when you starve yourself and do not eat. You get very malnourished and people have died from it or become very ill and all are permanently damaged for life. Another answer you got was when you cannot hold down your food I have no idea what they are talking about maybe bulimia which is when you make yourself throw up after you eat which is not the same thing and if it gets to the point that you cannot hold any food down you have dissolved the thing in your throat that holds food down and you will most likely die.

Answer 6

Anorexia Nervosa is a type of eating disorders characterized by:
1- Intense fear of obesity and persistent pursuit of thinness, perpetual dissatisfaction with weight loss.
2- Severe caloric restriction, often with excessive exercise and sometimes with purging, to the point of semi-starvation.
3- Severely limiting caloric intake may cause cessation of menstruation, downy hair on limbs and cheeks, dry skin, brittle hair or nails, sensitivity to cold, and danger of acute cardiac or kidney failure.
4- Weight at least 15% below normal.
5- Average age of onset is about 13 years of age.

Answer 7

Anorexia Nervosa is a disorder where the main characteristic is the restriction of food and the refusal to maintain a minimal normal body weight. Most Anorexics lose weight by restricting their food intake. Anorexics may start by limiting or excluding foods that they perceive as having high fat or caloric content.

Answer 8

Anorexia is a condition where a person has convinced himself/herself that he/she is fat. He/she will believe that in this state he/she is undiserable and ugly. He/she will solve this by not eating food. Sometimes the person will go way below the normal weight and will still believe himself/herself to be fat. It is an unhealthy way of losing weight and can become life threating if not stopped soon enough.

Answer 9

Anorexia is an emotional disease a person sees themselves unattractive and huge. This in fact makes them want to starve themselves if they do eat it is very minimal and they purge themselves. I hear they feel and think beauty is showing all their bones and losing all their fat and plus some and then they still think they are fat. There are different websites it's a real awful thing to suffer from but there is hope if the person wants it.....

Answer 10

anorexia is a health problem that is both mental and phyisical.the person thinks they are fat when they are really not. they stave themselves to make them look skinny but they still see themselves as ugly and fat .sometimes they will go days on only cups of tea! if this goes on too long, it can be fatal. it can be treated will medical assitance.