Anorexia Nervosa

Many female teens are getting this disease and many girls are too~there is no exact number

Anorexia can affect the body in many ways. Commonly, some health and side effects are - *Hair loss *Dry skin *Weight loss *Low body temperature *Low blood pressure *Low heart rate *Organ problems, malfunction, and / or failure *Stomach and intestinal issues *Prone to fainting, dizziness, and weakness *Often being cold when other are not (due to lack of body fat) *Depression

The key thing is to seek medical help (rehab or treatment centers) do help you gain health back the proper way, nutritiously. Having therapy sessions is usually really helpful, and invite your friends and family to go only for a few. It can really help. Make sure you build up trusts with family and friends. You will need their support, and if they really care for you then they will be there to give you that support. Try to avoid fashion magazines or similar tv shows. Those can set of the anorexia again. Eat foods where you don't look at the labels so constantly. (For example, put cereal into serving sizes in plastic baggies. Eating out of those plastic baggies means that you don't have to stare at the nutritional label or ingredients on the box every time yoou eat.) Don't think about food. Take up an activity like a sport or hobby to keep your mind busy and to give you something to do.

As the body starves and is forced to try asnd function through malnourishment, the organs can suffer greatly. Muscles, eventually, begin to deteriorate and weaken and become thinner in anorexics over time. Thinned muscle on organ like the heart can cause many problems. Also, anorexics tend to have heart conditions, and things like low-body-temperature and low-blood-pressures. This, along with lack of food and a lot of exercise, can place great strain and stress on organs, causing damage or organ failure.

because people with it don't eat and can die

Well, its because your starving yourself and the body starts to eat itself and you DIE! and TV and Magazines influence our youth to be skinny and it isn't healthy.

If you have blood in your vomit it very well could mean that you have a ulcer. It would be best that you go to a doctor. Better safe then sorry.

Sometimes they do. If you are depressed are making yourself throw up to help deal with the pain that would be diagnosed simply as depression, but if you are throwing up because you are insecure about your weight or figure then you would be diagnosed with an eating disorder.

Starving yourself is called anorexia. Anorexia can lead to serious medical problems including but not limited to death. If you need to lose weight try eating balanced meals and exercising. If you have the urge to eat then eat! Starving doesn't work because as soon as you get hungry and you eat, the vapors in your stomach will store the food you just ate as fat! and the less you eat the more you store as fats! just eat fruits, pasta, run a little each day (5 minutes), and drink water!! and you'll be good!

If by "work" you mean lose weight then yes... but then there's the issue of regaining every pound and then some when you start eating again, as well as developing dangerous nutritional deficiencies. It is true that the less you eat the more your body will want to store fat. Safe nutritional calorie restriction does work, and is recommended but you have to keep being hungry and keep eating very small amounts or else you will just gain it all back. It is not true that being hungry will make you fat, in fact it is almost impossible to lose weight without being hungry at some point.

Eat more fruits and raw, steamed vegetables, brown rice daily, this will help soften your bowels. Eat less fast food.

Starving yourself is called anorexia. Anorexia can lead to serious medical problems including but not limited to death. If you need to lose weight try eating balanced meals and exercising.

Certainly. Anorexia nervosa is an eating disorder characterized by a distorted body image, low body weight, and an obsesive fear of gaining weight. One characteristic of most disease-related obsessions is that the obsessed one often does not recognize the obsession, but believes he or she is applying a valid view of reality. While others may suspect anorexia nervosa in a freind or acquaintance, it is possible that other causes are at work. Such suspicions should be referred to experts for complete diagnosis. Non-experts acting on such suspicions can be as damaging as the suspected disease in some cases.

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The two types of Anorexia according to the APA is as follows:

Type I - Reduced appetite or refusal to eat or maintain a healthy weight. In other words they just don't eat.

Type 2 - Reduced appetite or refusal to eat, and when they eat, will purge. In other words, they are pretty much the same as type 1, but they also show bulimic tendencies.

Yes, you can still have a eating disorder (anorexia) without actually being underweight.

Anorexia is dangerous because it can severely damage the body by depriving it of needed nutrients. Anorexic people have a distorted picture of themselves as fat and don't know they have a problem which is dangerous.

Anorexia is a disorder of the mind. It's victims suffer because they constantly feel worn out and hungry, but they cannot eat because it makes them feel guilty, and they fear any intake of food will make them fat, although most anorexic people have very very low BMI's.

Beyond that, they are always grumpy/ tired - energy comes from food - they are not emotionally or physically sound, so anorexia affects relationships and everyday life.

There is usually an overriding sense of fear, which makes sufferers scared that they might lose control over their body by talking about their problem to others. Those who are close to suffers of anorexia commonly do not know how to react to the situation.

Physically, the body is deprived of calories. If this persists, a sufferer may have so little fat that hormone production shuts down and and their hair, skin and nails get really ugly, dry, and brittle. The ceasing of hormone production can cause a loss of menstrual periods, which can cause sterility. It can also cause the development of osteoporosis at a young age - 20's or 30's

Anorexia is not only dangerous, it's a disease.

It is very dangerous because this disease that takes over your mind can kill you if you allow it to, but don't get medical attention immediately in-case of faintness or other symptoms.

Those who suffers this disorder should seek medical help and/or counsel support from a professional or a support group.

This is called Anorexia (a common eating disorder.) Anorexia is a very deadly and dangerous way to loose weight. Please, loose weight the safe way by excercising more, and cutting back on snacks and sweets.

About 10% of anorexics will ultimately die either directly from the disorder, or from a cause directly stemming from the disorder (medical side effect).

10% of all those with eating disorders are male.

Yes. Don't become anorexic. Anexoria and Bulimia are eating disorders. They are generally found in people, more often women, with more deeply seated issues that could be approached with counseling and/or medical attention. Looking for advice on how to have a life threatening condition is not a good approach. Pleaes seek professional help immediately. Permanent body damage and death are more common outcomes of anorexia than anything positive.

Anorexia is most common found in what is known as "Western Society". This is for a few reasons. A main one is that this particular area holds a large percentage of the world's population, and it also heavily filled with media sources and ideals of thin-ness. Anorexia almost only (95%) affects those in the upper- or middle-classes. This is because those "more priveledged" than the lower-classes or those in poverty know that food is available, and can limit it as there almost is no chance of a real food-shortage or starvation for them.

Anorexia can psoe many heath risks. The skin can become dry and flaky, and hair can become brittle or fall out. Nails become discolored. Anorexics are at high risk to suffer from organ malfunction or failure, particularly in the liver and kidneys and especially in the heart. Low body fat and weight and malnutrition can lead to dizziness, fainting, fatigue, low blood pressure, brittle bones prone to cracks or breakages, increased risk of infection, and an increased risk of hypothermia.

It often makes you lose friends, and wrecks relationships. Anorexia completely takes over your life, and often comes back even if you get better. If you know someone who you suspect is anorexic, or shows any signs of anorexia, you should tell someone, because the sooner someone is helped the better. Anorexia really affects your life, it can completely change your life, and also affects the lives of people around you. You can end up in hospital, or even dead. Also, you will basically become a corpse and even though you supposedly don't care about food anymore, trust me, you won't be able to focus on anything but food.

Well it really depends....If the person is really obese and unhealthy than he could have heart failure. Also, being anorexic can cause you to get dehydrated or really hungry (starved)

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