Anorexia Nervosa

Yes. Anorexia can appear and manifest itself in an individual in numerous different forms and stages. A person may have anorexic-like eating habits, or anorexia that is moderate or severe or anywhere in-between. There are ofetn stages, too. A person usually doe not just develop full-blown anorexia quickly. Usually, it starts out with a desire to lose weight, and some abnormal eating habits. Then, it slowly progresses. Eating habits et more un-natural and dangerous, and more weight is desired to be lost. This pattern continues often to a very dangerous and health-risk level.

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To a degree. The lack of nutrients decrease optimum function and performance throughout the entire. Anorexia Nervosa is a psychological problem while memery loss can be both a psychologocal and/or physiological problem. Committing one's self to counseling and seeking is the best course of treatment for most people.

It is not normal to throw up after eating, and one should definitely not want to throw up purposively after eating. The nutrition in food usually needs at least 12-24 hours to be fully digested. If you want to intentionally throw up after eating, you likely have an eating disorder or a digestive disorder.

Eating disorders that can cause malnutrition are most commonly anorexia and bulimia. In both, the body is not gaining the essential nutrients (vitamins, minerals, calories, fats, ect.) that it needs because the individual is not eating enough food (anorexia) or is purging / vomiting the food back up (bulimia), so the body does not get enough of what it needs daily. As a result, it must rely on stores of nutrients and calories (energy) from fat and mucle cells. This will soon run out, and the body becomes malnourished.

Anorexia sufferers usually don't have enough energy to keep warm, when the body does not have enough energy to keep warm, its tries any way to keep at 37C. Other ways may be shivering etc. but one of the last resorts is growing downy hair ,like that which premature babies may have when born, in order to preserve as much heat as it can near the body.

I'm sorry, but WikiAnswers is meant to be a place where questions are answered that are there to help or educate or assist a person. Suggesting a method of weight lossthrough encouraging anorexia (a potentially fatal and life-endangering disease) would not be helping, but would be promoting this dangerous life style.

About 1 in every 250 people who suffers from an eating disorder suffers from anorexia.

Some statistics are...

* Anorexia affects an estimated 1 in every 250 people.

* 9 out of every 10 anorexics are female, 1 out of every 10 are male.

* 30%-40% of anorexics will die as a result of the disease or a complication caused by the disorder.

You can go online and do a basic search (google, yahoo, msn, ect.) on it. You might find something that way. Otherwise, look into a book or website (a specific anorexia organization or eating disorder organiztaion, for example) that can give you the data of past years.

Well, we look at the stars alot, the bony thin people who seem to look amazing in any clothes they wear. Alot of the stars have been anorexic, take Mary Kate, or some others. This basically screams to us, THIS IS THE WAY TO LOSE WEIGHT! But it really isn't. So much emphasis is on the way that people look that young teenagers are looking up to these people and thinking that they are NORMAL sized when the average size for a UK female is a 16. So these size 0, anorexic are the un-natural ones, not the real, curvy women. In answer to the question, YES the media has a HUGE impact on the eating habits of young people.

Yes, it is possible. Not all anorexics are underweight, and cellulite can appear on "thin" people. Cellulite is in realtion to the distribution of fat, not the amount of fat present, so it is possible for anorexics to have cellulite.

Anorexia can cause hair loss. Individuals with anorexia are usually severely lacking vital nutrients, some of which contribute to hair growth and health. Without those nutrients your hair falls out, and until your body receives the proper nutrients your hair isn't likely to grow back.

Anorexia nervosa is starving yourself to the point of either death or long term disability. It is probably a psychological illness that effects mainly women (and some men), that is caused when females think they are too fat or when they feel they have no control in their lives and the only thing they can control is their appetite. There may be psychical causes of the illness, such as a problem with glands, but, most think it is a mental illness. It takes a lot of therapy to save a person who is anorexic. Many die, directly from the disease, or indirectly from the medical problems the illness causes. Anorexia was unknown to the general public, until February 4 1983, when world famous Karen Carpenter, singer/drummer of the 1970s group the Carpenters, died from cardiac arrest due to anorexia nervosa.

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Anorexia

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Yes anorexia is becoming a wide problem now In days especially in teens that are misinformed or pressured by their peers. Also, in many others, such as actresses, that want to have "The Perfect Body".

Hope this Helped --curscascis

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Yes, very much so.

Though dangerous, starvation (no food or caloric intake at all) can result in weight lossin a few days. Severe calorie reduction (below 1,000 calories a day) will technically "starve" the body, and result in weight loss after about 10 or so days.

yes,anorexia can kill as you keep throwing up all the food that gives you vitamins,proteins etc. so you wont have any nutrients left to help you survive so you die. yes,anorexia can kill as you keep throwing up all the food that gives you vitamins,proteins etc. so you wont have any nutrients left to help you survive so you die.

Not exactly. While it may be possible, many factors must be taken into account. Height is a big one. Someone who is 5'4'' will weight significantly mroe than someone who is 4'8'', even if they are the same age. Also, body types are different and some people (especially younger girls before they mature) tend to have naturally slim or thinner bodies. Certain medical conditions can also cause a low weight, too.

Anorexia Nervosa is NOT a choice, one does not "become" anorexic. It is a mental illness that has a side effect of significant weight loss - so on this basis, someone medically overweight can BE anorexic, it just means that their symptoms will cause them to loose weight at a dangerous rate and, if they survive, they will have a BMI classified as anorxic.

People suffering from Bulimia may experience loss of the gag reflex which is when something goes too far into the mouth. The cough you make is the gag and bulimics often lose this. Females may experience a loss of their menstuation periods.

Absolutely, without qualification, the first and most important step is an appointment with a physician, and with disclosure that anorexia may be an issue. Eating disorders can be implicated in other very serious physical conditions, including a disruption of or stop to the menses, and blood and heart irregularities. Also, some physical ailments may lead to symptoms that might look like anorexia, and ignoring them could be fatal. Apart from that it is not wise to attempt to self-diagnose (or unprofessionally diagnose for someone else) this or any other disorder. There is much too much at stake.

It throws off the chemical balance in your body and a lack of nutrition can shut down different body systems, starting with the least necessary to keep the most vital running until they can't survive anymore.

It's not actually a virus or bacteria, it's a mental disorder. So it can't be spread! Yay ^^

There have not been any supported or re-tested conclusive long-term studies yet. This idea is still being researched. Due to a lack of nutrition, the brain will slow down responses and electrical impulses. It is believed that a restoration of proper health and nutrition will restore these functions, but it is unknown how much of a percentage is restored or if there are long term effects. Studies are currently going to to see if anorexia in young children affects their long-term brain or intellectual development.

Fat... Bloated.... Basically like your life is over, you're going to die, you'll get fat quickly, and a bunch of other negative things. It isn't until you are completely okay with your recovery that you are grateful for it.