Anorexia Nervosa

The Eating Disorders Association estimates that about 165000 people in the UK ... Around 5% of young girls in the UK are estimated to have anorexia nervosa.

About 1 in every 250 people suffer from anorexia or anorexia-like disorders.

Both anorexics and bulimics suffer from very dangerous, and potenetially deadly, easting disorders. In each case, the individual has a problem with food and how to deal / cope with food. Often, this stems from a problem with self-esteem, depression, and / or feelings they may have. Usually, both anorexics and bulimics will lose weight. Their bodies are also put in danger. Eating disorders can weaken the heart, liver, and kidneys to a dangerous level where they can experience organ failure. Muscles will begin to deteriorate, too.

Though never officially confirmed, it was rumored that Olsen may have suffered from anorexia in her late teens and early 20s.

Mary-Kate Olsen faced a lot of attention from the public in 2010 after she checked herself into a clinic. It is believed she is no longer anorexic.

no he did not die, hes actually going to appear in a movie this year called the hearts of men, and anotherone called red dawn, he was a guest star this year in the tv sieries victorius and fish hooks.

they were anorexic and bulimic. mary-kate's weight dropped to 82 pounds

While an eating disorder can affect either gender equally, more women tend to suffer from anorexia and bulimia while more men tend to suffer from muscle dysmorphia, protein abuse, and anorexia athletica.

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Before you consider yourself anorexic please get your thyroid checked out by your doctor.

Anorexics see themselves as always over-weight. They will have an aversion to food to the point where eating becomes a great problem and they simply grow thinner until they pass away.

If you have any of these symptoms please see your doctor and work together with him/her on this.

Anorexia is usually caused in people because eating is the only thing they can control in their lives. It is more common than you think.

If you are eating well and are still thin, take a look at the gene pool in your family. Not all people are the correct weight or on the stout side.

Anorexics eat but they eat such small portions its not even funny

If you have a negative self-image, always doubting yourself, that's psychological. If you are eating minimal calories a day for a substantial period of time. Another psychological aspect, and this is just from personal experience, is that your brain could start to hate food, think of it as a poison instead of a necessity.

There are other factors I am sure, that I have left out.

One thing though, if you have to question yourself something must be wrong somewhere, so either talk to someone, or keep yourself in check and keep yourself healthy.

If you start watching your weight more than normal and thinking that you look fat.

Also throwing up could be a very obvious sign. You should see a doctor if you are underweight because that is another sign.

If you do not want to eat or are afraid to eat because you fear you may gain weight. If you eat very little yet count calories when you do. If you go out of your way to avoid eating. If you excercise excessively although you do not have the energy for it because of lack of nutrients.

Those are just some of the warning signs of anorexia. Anorexia is more so a disease of the mind than the body. It puts avoiding food at the forefront of your daily activities. It becomes an obsession the sufferers can only overcome through counseling and/or hospitalization in severe cases.

Bulimia is very similar to anorexia however it is characteristic of "binging and purging". This means that the person will go long hours/days with no food and suddenly eat an enormous amount of food at once which is called binging. And then they will force themselves to throw up the food they have just eaten which is called purging. Not all bulimics binge and purge, however, some eat fairly regular meals but force themselves to throw up immediately after.

Contrary to common belief, anorexics and bulimics are not all stick-thin. A lot of those suffering from either disease are of average/above average build. Anorexia and bulimia are both very dangerous. Both can kill if not treated soon enough. Both also cause long term health problems. If you believe you are anorexic or bulimic it is best advised that you get help for this ASAP. This will not be easy but if you do not do so, the concequences could be dire.

See the related links for more information on Anorexia.

Anorexia brings up many ethical issues tied into the physical problems or issues that may arise, too.

1. A main one is that anorexia is very much a conscious "disease" or "disorder". Unlike bacterial or viral disease, or conditions such as cancer, or mental disorders like bipolar disorder, anorexia is very much so controlled by the individual. They make concious decisions about how to eat, what to do, how to exercise, and so on. The only difference is that they often cannot tell them selves to make the effort or decisions to stop.

2. This brings up the problem, though, of how do you treat someone who is chosing to inflict themselves with these problems. Doing so by force would be unethical and inhumane, yet it cannot often be done by choice.

3. There is also the ethical issue of when to treat and when not to treat. What really defines someone as "bad" or "severe"? When should treatment take place? What kind of treatment should happen? (though there are medical objective criteria as to when someone is malnourished and should be hospitalized e.g. low temperature, low HR, low BP, very very low weight, electrolyte abnormalities)

There are so many different grades of the disorder that there is no one real method of treatment or care, and this can bring up problems of who is deciding on treatment plans, if they have the best interest of the patient in mind, and what qualifies them to suggest or enact these specific methods of treatment over other methods.

because lots of women are so conscious about their weight and starve themselves because they want to be accepted by men and by other people. which normally leads to anorexia.

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Q. you mean 'how should i say to my boyfriend that I'm bulimic?

A. by moving your mouth and making works come out?

A2. by saying 'I am bulimic' ?

just say it.

Every hour, at the absolute least, sip a glass of water. Except before meals, when it may cause you to eat less or make you feel a little queasy so you do not want to eat at all, it is better for weight reduction to sip during the day than to down a full glass. Consider having a water bottle in a location where you'll encounter it frequently—perhaps every 10 to 20 minutes—and drinking from it as soon as you see or notice it.

Lots of horrible things

-Weight loss

-Hair loss

-Hair growth (all over your body and face)

-Brittle nails and hair

-dry flaky skin

-dark bags under eyes

-dull eyes

-pale skin

-loss of energy

-loss of libido

-loss of life.

It is not OK for anyone to starve them selves because this activity leads to damage to the body.

Many females suffering from advanced anorexia nervosa lose their menstrual cycle as the body shuts down unnecessary (from a personal survival standpoint) bodily functions.

Children weakened by malnutrition are at gravely higher risk of any infection and measles is one of the most virulent, spreading lethally and quickly among the unimmunized.

you just tell her that anorexia is an disorder where you allways think your to fat and need to lose more weight. when they look in the mirror they think they are so fat when really they are so skinny it looks unnormal. it also makes you lose hair and your bones stick out a lot. hey im 10 and i understand everything about it so it cant be harder to tell it to someone two years older than me!!! :)