Anorexia Nervosa

Anorexia Nervosa Overview
Anorexia nervosa is a mental illness. You have a preoccupation with food and body image to the extreme: You don’t eat. Despite being underweight, you continue to try to lose weight.
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Anorexia nervosa
Definition:
Anorexia nervosa is an eating disorder characterized by refusal to maintain a minimally accepted body weight, intense fear of weight gain, and distorted body image.
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Anorexia nervosa (AN), a form of self-starvation, is an eating disorder characterized by low body weight (less than 85 percent of normal weight for height and age), a distorted body image, and an intense fear of gaining weight.
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What is Anorexia Nervosa?
Signs of Anorexia
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Who Develops Anorexia
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The risk of developing anorexia nervosa increases if you: 6, 3
Have a family history of an eating disorder, obesity, or a mood disorder (such as anxiety or depression).
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Anorexia, technically called anorexia nervosa, can be chronic and difficult to overcome.
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Anorexia Nervosa
What is anorexia nervosa?
Anorexia nervosa is an eating problem that occurs when you are so afraid of becoming overweight that you eat as little as possible.
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Anorexia nervosa is an eating disorder in which a person limits eating and weighs at least 15% less than his or her ideal weight. At least 90% of cases are in young women, but anorexia nervosa can occur in men.
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Alternate Names
: Anorexia Nervosa - Resources, Bulimia - Resources, Overeating - Resources, Resources - Eating Disorders
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ANOREXIA NERVOSA
SYMPTOMS"Thin people who try to keep losing more weight.
CAUSES"Both Anorexia nervosa and bulimia are obsessive eating disorders, but they are not the same.
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Anorexia nervosa is a common eating disorder that often starts with normal dieting to lose weight, but turns into a form of intentional starvation, causing a person to become dangerously underweight.
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Women with anorexia nervosa are at increased risk for bone fractures and can develop osteoporosis at a younger age than women without eating disorders.
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An eating disorder manifested primarily by a loss of desire or willingness to eat for a variety of psychological reasons.
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in psychology, disorders in eating patterns that comprise four categories: anorexia nervosa, bulimia, rumination disorder, and pica. Anorexia nervosa is characterized by self-starvation to avoid obesity.
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The symptoms of someone who is suffering from anorexia nervosa are loss of appetite, intense fear of gaining weight, lower than normal body weight and claiming to feel fat even when they're very thin.
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Eating disorders, such as anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and binge eating, affect over five million American women and men. Fifteen percent of young women have substantially disordered attitudes toward eating and eating behaviors.
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Many, but not all, people with bulimia may also suffer from anorexia nervosa, an eating disorder involving severe, chronic weight loss that proceeds to starvation.
Alternative Names:
Bulimia nervosa; Binge-purge behavior; Eating disorder - bulimia ...
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People who are underweight, such as those who suffer from anorexia nervosa, typically have bones with less density; this makes repair and recovery more difficult for them.
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A 24-hour diet history should be recorded each day. If an anorexic person consistently exaggerates food intake (a common occurrence in anorexia nervosa), strict calorie and nutrient counts should be maintained by someone else.
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