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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.

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