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What Is Anorexia?

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.

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.

The disorder is thought to be most common among people of higher socioeconomic classes and people involved in activities where thinness is especially looked upon, such as dancing, theater, and distance running.

Answer 1

... Lifted from the Internet...? *shrugs* Too much use of the word "anorexia." I don't really have any other reactions to that since I went through health class. It's just so common to hear about this disorder (not saying that it's not detrimental), so I've become... "desensitized," I guess.

Answer 2

Interesting and based on common theory. My sister battles with anorexia everyday. Unlike in this article my sister is 10. She has battled with this problem from the age of 5. There is no obvious reason for the start of this problem. Though she talks in her sleep of not wanting to get fat. So the article is correct on that matter. She does like the article suggest have strange eatting habits. For example she cannot sit in school when they have a party she feels physically sick and must go home. Another example is she hides food not just food from the dinner table but food she would lift of her own accord. My mother's dog must be removed from the room if she is eating because my sister feeds it. On top of this she must visit the toilet at least one during meal time. Thankfully she doesn't carry food to the bathroom nor does she be sick cause she has a phobia of vomitting. I think what the article doesn't mention is the fact these people with anorexia tend to have control issues and can be quite obssessive in other parts of their lives. I disagree with the suggestion that it is more common with higher socioeconomic classes. From experience I feel the disorder is in fact more of lower socioecomic who tend not to publicise it and most of the time it isn't discovered or acknowledged due to their type of background. This order also affects males but because of their unwillingness to express their feelings and admitt they have a problem. It is almost impossible to give an accurate assessment figure of males affectedby anorexia.
I think the article is very narrow and has catagorised a subject with is a much more problematic for this generation that it would care to state.

Answer 3

Anorexia often affects those with issues of self esteem. The person can be told that they are perfect just the way they are, but the have a problem believing in themselves. Look at Karen Carpenter. She suffered from low self esteem even though people around her kept telling her that she was beautiful. Even Princess Diana suffered from anorexia. Sometime peer pressure can cause people to purge themselves after they eat. I think if you are happy with yourself first, what others say about you shouldn't and possibly won't have a factor on you as a person. I for one am overweight, and want to loose the weight, but I don't let what other people think of me control my actions. What controls my actions is what the doctor says to me, what the Bible says to me, and what God feels about me.

I don't really think that it is a higher socioecomic problem. Anorexia hits all levels of society.

Answer 4

you might also add that anorexia is a compulsion and often has alot to do with the person afflicted trying to be in control(often because in other areas of their lives they have no control whatsoever so they can damn well control there intake of food)i find the article informative and well thought out you might also want to add that there are literally hundreds of websites dedicated to this life style and they give advice on how to be the best anorexic they could be (i know its gross)sad but true...also anorexic people can develop many other diseases because of the anorexia panic attacks falling teeth loosing hair bruising easily insomnia,heart problems and the list goes on and on do a little more research there's alot more to be said about this horrendous disease

Answer 5

I think this Yahoo Answers , getting a .... you know !!!


you will find a biiiiiiiiiiiiig fight between two kind of sciences :

First kind says , Anorexia came from the Mind before it comes from the body .. obsession , worry , anxiety , ... and many things loses your appetite .....

Second kind says , the body is in the absolute controller of losing and gaining appetite ..

I think i do agree more with the first kind .....

Answer 6

I am not sure what you are looking for in a response, but it is all sooo true! I did read it and it reminds me of so many of today's young stars...Keirs Knightly, Mary-Kate, Nicole Ritchie, just to name a few. Young girls today learn to think looking like a twig is "normal" because so many stars eating disorders and body weights are often publicized. Hope this helps, good luck!

Answer 7

I already knew about Anorexia.

Answer 8

People suffering from anorexia are very skinny but are convinced that they are overweight.

Answer 9

Sure..you got the info from a website! That's nothing how it is in real life! It may be good article for 'normal' people, but for me (recovering) I don't care for it.

Answer 10

I think you don't know what anorexia is until you have the problem.