Give me meaning and opposite of 'anorexia'?

Question

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"Lack of appetite for food"

Answer 1

First of all, anorexia is not the "lack of appetite for food"--if your teacher told you this, he or she is delusional and wrong. Anorexia is a mental disorder.

Muscle dysmorphia, or "bigorexia" is the opposite of anorexia. Unlike anorexia, which makes one believe that they're overweight, dysmorphia bequeaths the illusion that one does not have big enough muscles.
People with the illness constantly imagine that their body needs to change even though it is fine by normal standards. It is still a relatively new psychological disorder; doctors at Brown and Keele University in England discovered this disorder not too long ago, but it is definitely real.

Dysmorphia is an obsessive-compulsive disorder that affects a person's perception of their body image. Most men who have this psychological illness are rather muscular when compared to the rest of the population, but they none-the-less wear baggy clothes and refuse to take their shirts off in public out of fear of being ridiculed because of their (anticipated) small size.

It can be quite serious and needs to be treated. Dysmorphia might not have as direct an impact on a man's health as anorexia, but its repercussions can still have grave effects on a person's life. Some of the symptoms can cause irreparable damage to the body and the negative impact it can have on one's social life can take years to fix.

Answer 2

What the dictionary tells us: loss of appetite, a psychological disorder characterized by an aversion to eating and fear of gaining weight.

The reality of anorexia nervosa: it is nothing to do with weight, calories or being "thin" - these are merely symptoms of an underlying cause.

Anorexia nervosa is a condition in which the sufferer has a fear of weight gain and becoming "fat". However, the reality is that, like all eating disorders, anorexia is merely a mask covering other underlying problems. Eating disorders, particularly anorexia and bulimia, usually affect females but the number of male anorectics is on the increase. Remember, someone can develop anorexia at any age, in any place and in any situation.

Someone suffering from anorexia will often go to extreme lengths to avoid consuming food. One of the most typical behaviors is lying, which can quickly become second nature. For example, telling a parent you have already eaten dinner when really you haven't. Anorectics will also make excuses so they can eat less or even avoid meals altogether. This isn't necessarily the same as lying because they may decide to become vegetarian or vegan, have to fast for religious reasons, or they may simply claim they are on a "diet".

Muscle dysmorphia", "reverse anorexia" and "bigorexia" are all terms meaning essentially the same thing: somebody who believes they are underweight and puny when the opposite is true.

Answer 3

Since the WORD 'anorexia' absolutely does mean, purely etymologically, 'without appetite' (an=without, orex=desire, reaching, or appetite), I vote for "saturia" which I just made up (satur=satiated).

Answer 4

Anorexia is the fear of eating. An anorexic person does not eat, out of fear that he or she is obese and hence will die if he or she eats.

I guess the opposite of anorexia would be glutton - a person who loves eating and keeps eating.

Answer 5

I think Bulemia is the opposite of Anorexia. Bulemia is compulsive over eating (binge eating).

Answer 6

Especially teenage girls, but people with emotional issues around food generally, sometimes get into "food is my enemy." Believe me. I am morbidly obese because I lost that war when my leg was broken and I couldn't get enough exercise for long enough to get onto the downward spiral.

Anyway, some people react by being able to avoid the enemy altogether: they fast. They fast so long they re-set all their body's defense mechanisms, and put themselves in real danger. In the meantime, they lose weight.

Now, a girl who gets hooked on the fact that she CAN, indeed, lose weight by making this whole "food is the enemy" stance and being stubborn enough to pull it off, and ignore (or learn to take perverse pleasure in) hunger pangs long enough, does, as I say, something she was determined she wanted to do. Lose weight. Problem is knowing when to stop.

When you take these extreme measures to lose it, your body-logic gets set on starvation mode. It will not be able to take eating normally for a long, long time. And when it is reset to get you past emergency settings, your fear of "food is the enemy" will drive you back. Body image never did get set on a OK, this is good. I will do what I can to maintain it.

Because body image is way more about what your are looking for than what you see. Whether or not you have a three-way mirror in your own room and can literally see yourself as others do. To whom does a growing girl compare what she sees? (1) whatever members of her family make her think she's programmed to be similar, and (2) mass media.

You wonder why they starve themselves? The trick is to avoid being controlled by ANYTHING outside your own self-knowledge and reasoning capability. You may ask wise people for advice, but you have to be the one making the rational decision. One day at a time.

Answer 7

Bulimia

Answer 8

Well it's BULEMIA 4 confirm.

Answer 9

MEANING:-absence of
OPPOSTE:-orexis(appetite)

Answer 10

Gormand-Excessive love of food.