Millions. An exact number is hard to place, as not all cases go reported. Also, many people may die of complications from anorexia, and not the actually disease itself. Of those affecteds with anorexia, about 20% will ultimately die from the disease or from a complication realted to anorexia.
Roughly 1 in every 250 people are anorexic.
Millions and millions of people world-wide are anorexic. An estimated 1% of the population in the entire world suffers from diagnosable anorexia.
more people than you think are anarexic.
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Most anorexics consume 600-800 calories a day.
You cannot apply a number like 100% to that, but many anorexics do over-exercise.
Many anorexics deal with a lot while suffering from the disease. It can cause many physical and mealth problems, pain, and high amounts of mental distress. Anorexics often suffer from isolation and depression, too.
Many people die from anorexia.
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Most anorexics are diagnosed by pediatricians or family practitioners
Roughly 80% of anorexics will recover, and unfortunately about 20% will die. About 1/3, however, of those who recover will relapse at some poit later on in their lives, though.
Anorexics are never healthy, you need food to be healthy.
Most anorexics deny that they are ill and are usually brought to treatment by a family member
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Yes. Anorexics usually weigh less than a healthy person does.