Anorexia Nervosa

Anorexia is a dangerous medical disorder. By starving themselves, anorexics often face harmful and potentially deadly medical risks and side effects related to starvation. Excessive exercsie can permanently damage bones and muscles in the body. The immune system can be weakened, and organ like the heart can become weak and stop working properly. Anorexia is also detrimental to one's mental health, too.

Yes, you can. If you don't eat enough, your body starts shutting down functions that it doesn't think are crucial to survival. The first to go is the reproductive system, which is why many anorexics cease to menustrate. Sadly, this change is sometimes irreversible.

When the body does not recieve enough nutrients or calories, it naturally tries to conserve the enegy it expends daily (sort of like a natural survival technique). To do so most efficiently, the base metabolic rate (BMR) will lower, meaning that a person burns less calories to survive daily than an average person would.

According to NAMI, which is the National Alliance on Mental Illness, approxiamately .5 - 1% of all females are diagnosed with anorexia nervosa. A smaller fraction of males are also diagnosed with anorexia as well.

Binge eating can cause mental disorders, especiall those like depression. Cumpulsive over-eating during a binge can cause the stomach to distend or rupture, and lead to intestinal and bowel problems.

It isn't possible unless you cover yourself completely. It will show in your hands, your face and neck too. If you struggle with anorexia, get help or you will eventually die of heart failure, severe malnutrition, or some other horrible way that comes with starving the body. I lost a classmate from highschool to anorexia. It devastated her family and her parents ended up in divorce. Anorexia is much more than physical, you will need to enter into a rehab center that specializes in the disease. It would be irresponsible to answer that question. Instead, you should seek help from a medical or mental health profesional. If you truly have a weight problem a medical professional can give you the guidance you need. If not, a mental health professional can help you deal with your problem. Anorexia is a dangerous condition that can result in early death. i am going to answer this question simply because i used to be anorexic and know how lonley it can be. (now recovered) simply type in pro-ana websites or something along that line and look carefully through what comes up. i am NOT pro-ana, but i know of several people who found the courage to go into recovery simply from the support they received on these sites, like i received support myself. these sites DO NOT promote anorexia, as most people claim, they simply give a place for people suffering (or who choose this life style) from these somewhere to honestly express their feelings and not get slammed for being the way they are. good sites will always support recovery and keeping yourself as healthy as possible. of course, like everything else in life there are the good and bad. sites that promote "become like us, anorexic!" are stupid. you DO NOT become ana just because you want to!! anorexia is no way to live, i know, and i hope anyone who is seeks help. otherwise, KEEP HEALTHY, and know your not alone!

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I am BEYOND serious about losing weight and I will do whatever that it takes to achieve that image in my mind that I see every single time that I close my eyes..

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It can lead to suicide and it is caused by:

• Extreme weight loss
• Thin appearance
• Intense fear of gaining weight
• Abnormal blood counts
• Fatigue
• Insomnia
• Dizziness or fainting
• Bluish discolouration of the fingers
• Hair that thins, breaks or falls out.

The treatmetns for anorexia vary based on the individual needs of each patient. It also depends on the severity of the case. Most treatments involve therapy (mental). Sometimes is is one-on-one. For more intense cases, therapy can be braodened out to involve family, friends, group sessions, and food / nutritional therpay. If needed, hospitalization or IV feeding tubes may be needed. Some anorexics also go on medications to treat weight, health conditions, and depression, OCD, anxiety, or other mental disorders.

The reason starving peoples bellys get big, is because the stamach starts to build up with gasses inside of it, which then expands the belly and eats the tissue of the belly, the gas inside gives the affect that they're well fed.

some people who suffer anorexia have gasses in they're bellys from starving themselves, which then make them think that they're fat, so they try to go even smaller, with dangerous affects.

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Almost every body part is affected in some way... * Hair - Can fall out, thin, change color, become brittle or fragile, lose its "shine", grow a thin peach-fuzz (called lanugo) on the arms, back, chest, and legs. * Skin - Can become dry and flaky. * Bones - Can become weaker, more prone to fractures. * Muscles - Can degenerate, thin out. * Fat - Will eventually go away completely. * Organs Pairs - (Lungs, Kidnes, ect.) Can slow down. * Organs - Can slow down, become stressed or strained, won't function properly, or shut down altogether.

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Anorexia usually has two main causes: body image and need for control. If you work on liking yourself, and thinking that you are great the way you are, that will help the first part. The other part is when people feel out of control of their lives, sometimes they start trying to have *extra* control of something specific, like eating. Working on being able to make your own choices and have your own opinions will help with that part. If someone is already anorexic, the best thing to do is talk to a therapist to try to change the way you think about certain things... sometimes we all need help to change. Difficult question, we are learning more about this illness all the time. It is more prevalent in the US and in young women/girls. It is characterized by a distorted body self-image, one where th individual sees themselves as obese or fear of being obese. The cause is unknown, but may have to do with parenting, the media, and western cultures fascination with perfection, manifested in movies, models, magazine covers, and television. In the last 50 years or so, the ideal woman has shifted from the full figured woman to todays very thin, boney woman with breast implants. As parents you may be able to avoid creating a child with this eating disorder with unconditional love and acceptance. It is not healthy to be obese, but too much focus on being thin can create a distorted self-image in a young mind. Not everyone can have the "perfect" body, set an example for your children by eating a well balanced diet and getting plenty of exercise. Get them involved in sports and extracurricular activities, do not degrade them if they are overweight, genetics plays a huge role in your body type, which is something none of us has any control over. Do not make your child clean their plate, and do not let them eat junk food, they learn at an early age that they can skip the dinner prepared for them and have a junk food snack later. Peer pressure may also play a role, but this is something parents have very little control over. If your child is overweight do not make it a major issue, praise them for their accomplishments, whether they are in sports, art, music, academics, or whatever, let them know you love them and they are beautiful inside and outside.

Socially, anorexia is greatly harming our society. It is a little nagging bug on the back of society that shows us how destructive we (and the ideals) are becoming. For a perosn suffereing from anorexia, social problems can happen like isolation and depression, too.

I'm going to start off by telling you how HORRIBLE anorexia is. You destroy your body, shorten your life span, and just ruin yourself, physically and psychologically. 1 out of 10 anorexics ultimately DIE because of their starvation and malnutrition. Once you start being anorexic, you never really stop. It becomes a part of who you are.

If you become severly anorexic, your brain shrinks, your digestive tract shuts down, you're more at risk for bone and growth problems, your immune system stops functioning, if you're a girl, you stop getting your period and become just about, if not completely, infertile, and your personality changes.

An anorexic is not something anyone should want to become.

Like anorexics, bulimics loose weight quiqly and unsafly yet anorexics loose more weight because they don't have any food in their stomach whereas bulimics still have leftover food in their stomach they didn't get get rid of. Bulimics loose more weight than anorexics.

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.