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It really depends on the individual. Height is a big factor, as smaller people can survive at a healthy level at lower weights. Generally, it is unhealthy for a person to drop below 100 pounds, though.
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Who are more prevalant men or women anorexia?
Anorexia affrects women to men in a ratio of about 9 to 1.
How does anorexia affect males?
Although males comprise only about 1/10 of all people with anorexia, when they do have anorexia they are affected as severely as are women with the same illness. Males are affected by anorexia in the same way as women are: for example, they can have organ failure, extreme emaciation, and even death. However, males with anorexia may not be taken as seriously as women because anorexia is often viewed as a women's disease.
Statistical test used for results 0.5 percent and 3.7 percent women suffer from Anorexia?
There are many tests done about anorexia. Percentgaes can do anythign from rate body weight to height (BMI) ratios or body fat percentages.
Who does anorexia effect?
anorexia most commonly affects teenage/young girls and women who are quiet, shy, well behaved and high acheivers at school. but lots of people can get anorexia...men, women, different ages.
Is anorexia a common disease?
Sadly, anorexia is an extremely common disease. 1 out of every 3 teenage girls, and grown women have suffered, or are suffering from anorexia.
Why is anorexia a common disease to women?
Anorexia is most common in women because most current societies focus a lot of attention on the appearances of women. Most commonly, society demands a thin and "beautiful" woman. Eating disorders, like anorexia, often develop as a result of women trying to unnaturally conform to these social standards.
How can people develop anorexia?
Anorexia nervosa is a serious health condition characterized by severely low body weight and a refusal to eat. It is characterized as both an eating and psychiatric disorder. Anorexia tends to affect mostly young women with about 1% of women in the United States suffering from the disease. Men with anorexia tend to be far less common. It can occur in different forms. Usually, it is a diet that keeps on going and going until the person begins to develop an eating disorder. Other factors involve a conscieous decision to lose weight, but the eating disorder just manifests iteself more and more as time goes on.
How many people in Australia suffer from anorexia?
About 1 in every 250 people who suffers from an eating disorder suffers from anorexia.
Are Guys anarexic?
They can be. Anorexia cases are 90% in women, 10% in men.
Why do anorexic people become infertile?
Anorexia nervosa in women causes such severe weight loss that the reproductive system shuts down. The body does this in an attempt to survive -- it has inadequate nourishment to support a new life, and also cannot afford to lose nutrition via menstruation. Reproductive hormones drop and reproductive organs atrophy. This damage is not always reversible.
How many men and women suffer from anorexia?
Millions of men and women around the wolrd suffer from anorexia. Many unfortunately go un-noticed or un-documented, meaning that numbers are probably higher than predicted. As it stands, current estimations are that 1 in every 250 people has some sort of anorexia or anorexic tendencies (above what is considered mentally and physically acceptable or "normal"). Of that, 90% are women and 10% are men.
What parts of community does anorexia effect?
Anorexia can affect anyone, but most commonly is seen in girls and young women in middle- and upper-class families.
