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What is meant by the term anorexia?

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15y ago
Updated: 8/17/2019

Anorexia is a dangerous mental disorder than manifests itself in the human body. Anorexics typically do not eat / starve themselves in order to lose weight, and have a fear of gaining weight or being "fat", often when they are very, very thin.

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