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Yes. Anorexics will eat some food, but it is often too little to be healthy or very low in calories and fat content.
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∙ 13y ago
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∙ 13y agoNo, it varies person to person. Some exercise when they feel extreme guilt after eating, some exercise obsessively, and some just restrict their food intake.
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Are all anorexics chronic exercisers?
You cannot apply a number like 100% to that, but many anorexics do over-exercise.
What exercise do anorexics do?
mostly cardiovascular because it burns more calories
What are the long term affects of exercise anorexia?
Anorexics commonly abuse exercise as a way to burn off calories to lose even more weight.
How much exercise can anorexics do?
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What anorexics do to their bodies?
Anorexics starve their bodies. They either do not eat, or they limit what they eat. This is not nutritious or healthy. Anorexics often will exercise a lot, to burn off more calories. All of this pretty much starves the body, and can damage (possibly even permanently) organs, cause skin problems, hair problems, weakness, fainting, dizziness, little to no fat left on the body, muscle degeneration, mental problems (depression, suicidal thoughts, BDD (Body Dismorphic Disorder), blood-pressure problems, and can even be fatal in 20% of anorexics.
How can a exercise specialist help eating disorders?
Anorexics often over-exercise or exercise enough to lose weight. An exercise specialist could work to help create a plan that would not harm the patient any further and would help them with their recovery.
What do people with anorexia do to stay skinny?
Anorexics do not eat and they excessively exercise. This is a very dangerous - and potentially deadly - method of weight loss.
Why do anorexics use painkillers as diet pills?
That is not commonly done. Anorexics will sometimes abuse painkillers in order to relieve their bodies of the stress that lack of proper nutrition and excessive exercise can place on them or to strive off hunger pains, but painkillers do not work as diet pills.
Are they anorexic men?
Yes, about 10% of all diagnosed anorexics are male.
If not eating doesn't necessarily cause weight loss fast how come anorexics are so skinny?
Anorexics control their body weight by voluntarily going through starvation, vomiting, purging and excessive exercise. Also controlled by diuretic pills. More info on this on the weblink below:
Who diagnoses anorexics?
Most anorexics are diagnosed by pediatricians or family practitioners
What characteristics is NOT associated with anorexia nervosa?
Anorexia is not associated with a willingness to eat. Anorexics are not "lazy", either, as they will often exercise or constantly be moving to burn calories. Many anorexics are not very social as they tend to isolate or suffer from depression, too. In those who recover, energy intakes return to normal.~jmata
