anorexia
"Anorexia Nervosa"
Bizarre, devastating, and baffling are three words that describe the anorexia nervosa disease. By definition, anorexia nervosa is an eating disorder in which a normal-weight person diets and becomes significantly underweight, yet, still feeling fat, continue to starve themselves. The term "anorexia nervosa" literally means nervous lose of appetite. People with the disorder are suppressing a strong desire to eat, because they are afraid of becoming fat. Anorexia is characterized by extreme starvation …
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…the brink of death they continue to starve themselves, but they need to know that there is help out there and they are wanted. With the
continued investigation of anorexia, we will undoubtedly come up with better and better ways to treat it.
Bibliography
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Pirke, K.M., and Ploog,D. eds.(1984) The Psychobiology of Anorexia Nervosa. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
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