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Anorexia Nervosa In January of 1999, a ten year old girl named Kelsey asked her parents if she could go to a weight loss camp in the summer. Kelsey wasn’t very over weight, but her parents decided if that would make her feel better about herself, then why not? What her parents didn’t know was that this was the first step towards Anorexia Nervosa. After the camp, she came home and immediately started dieting …

…process can take up to twelve to sixteen weeks, but for a full recovery, it will take up to eighteen months. So, this can be an ongoing process. Twenty percent of people without proper treatment will die. Only two to three percent of anorectics die with treatment. With treatment, about sixty percent of anorectics recover, and twenty percent make only partial recoveries. Anorectics, who are untreated, increase their risk of getting involved with Bulimia Nervosa.