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Because lots of famous people are stick thin and women want to be like them so to become skinny they thing you have to starve yourself.

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What year did more women become anorexia?

It was not in a specific year that more women became anorexic, but in a span of years that they number of women who become anorexic haas risen significantly. This rise frist happened in the 1980s and 1990s. There has been a sharp increase in anorexia in women from 2000 to current day.


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.


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.


What can you do if both your daughters do not eat much and when you say something to them they say they want to be like modern women like in movies and music how do you prevent anorexia?

Tell them to be like those women they need to eathealthy foods. If they don't eat, they won't be like those women.


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.


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.


What percent of the 3 million people who suffer from anorexia are women?

90% of all anorexics are women, 10% are men.