When was anorexia first identified?

Answer 1

Eating disorders have been around for decades or longer, but the term anorexia began to be used in the 1980s.

Answer 2

Usually anorexia is a result of too much body anxiety. If you are too concious about your body weight, and you tend not to eat and you starve yourself everytime you feel the need to eat. Sometimes you self purge.

Answer 3

When celebrities decided they had to be skinny and stopped eating.

Anorexia isn't an infectious disease, it's a mental illness.