Anorexia Nervosa

binge eating disorder

Yes, that is roughly correct.

Anorexia nervosa is an eating disorder characterized by self-starvation and excessive exercise done in order to lose weight.

There is no exact type of medicine for anorexia. It depends on the person. Usually a doctor will prescribe a medicine to help or fix a problem that is associated with the eating disorder, such as depression or liver damage. Weight-gain supplements or nutritional drinks / shakes might also be perscribed to help the anorexic get to a healthy weight again with proper nutritional levels of vitamins and minerals.

Cardic Glycoside does not cause anorexia.

Without adequate food, calories, and nutrition for an extended period of time, the body naturally slows down the metabolism. It begins to use up fat stores and energy much less quickly in an attempt to stop losing weight as a natural survival instinct.

Sports anorexia is a type of anorexia (not an official diagnosis, however). With it, individuals with present typical signs of anorexia including a severely restricted diet and weight loss, but there is also signs of extreme exercise or sports. This contributes to weight loss, but can change the appearance of what some might think of as a "typical" anorexic (very thin, bones, emaciated....though this is incorrect because anorexia can exist at a variety of weights).

eventually, yes you will, and if you continue, you will die. the body needs certain nutrients so best to eat fruit for breakfast, take vitamins and a small portion of meat or fish later in the day. that way if ur determined to not eat much, at least u wont make urself ill. spo xx

Anorexics can be any weight, but most tend to be underweight for their height and age.

• This is an ineffective way to lose weight, because you will not lose much fat, and you will put on fat more quickly when you restart your regular eating habits. If you want to lose fat, stop eating carbohydrate dense, processed foods. If it's in a box, carton or packet it's often bad. Stick to lean proteins, fruits and veggies and exercise often. You simply cannot lose weight and maintain your weight loss in the long run without changing your eating habits altogether.
• When your body stops getting food it goes into a starvation mode and saves fat. The weight you will lose (not much) will be mostly water and muscle tissue. This is bad because not only will you have to start eating again, but since you now have less muscle, and therefore a slower metabolism than when you began fasting, you will gain even more fat on top of the fat that your body stored while you fasted. The only time your body will start burning noticeable amounts of fat is when it can no longer burn muscle proteins as a fuel source. However, this will only happen you're close to death.
• Rather than starve yourself, you will do far better to strictly limit or eliminate (apart from the occasional treat) refined (processed) carbohydrates. If you are unsure what refined (processed) carbohydrates are, see the related link for a list. If you couple this will frequent, cardio exercise, you should lose weight.
• I tried it. I must say I do not have an addictive personality or focus much on my body or looks. I did it in an attempt to try to understand what a friend of mine was going through. I started at 176lbs and the initial weight loss was quick, probably due to emptying my body of the waste over the first couple of days. I drank only water and tea with milk and one sugar. I did my normal work involving moderate exercise and lost 11lbs. Unexpected symptoms nearing the 7th day were: flickering vision and problems focusing my eyes, giddiness, and fatigue. Please note: Half the weight was back on within a couple of days. Losing weight fast is not a viable method for people who need to lose weight, and is definitely very dangerous to people who want to lose only a bit of weight.
• You may lose a little bit of weight by starving yourself for a week because you body will become so hungry that it will start to eat fat and muscle tissue. You will likely also feel weak, tired, irritable, and sick because you are not consuming necessary calories or vitamins. This will also make your metabolism slow down, which will hinder current and future weight loss plans. After your fasting period, you are likely to gain much of the weight you may have lost back.
• Actually, if you starve yourself for long enough your metabolism will go into "starvation mode" and slow down. This is why many recovering anorexics gain more weight back than they originally had before the eating disorder.
• If you're really going to do the drastic, scary weight loss strategy, eat a small amount every day, divided into four or five small snacks. An intake of a small portion of food every few hours throughout the day will speed up your metabolism, and you should still lose weight in a very small amount of time because of the substantial decrease in calories.
• The real reason why people gain weight after fasting (starving) is because they go straight to heavy foods that requires a lot of chemical reactions to take place at once to break it down and your stomach just isn't used to that after starving it for prolonged periods of time. When you do start to eat its best to start of with small foods like soup and smoothies. Don't eat big meals. You have to let your body get used to eating again and exercise, but not extreme amounts, is recommended to keep the weight off.
• From personal experience, I would not recommend not eating anything. I went from 235 - 205 in the last month by sticking to the following meal plan: I don't eat breakfast. I eat a small cup of chunk light tuna (3 oz or so) for lunch and drink plenty of water throughout the day. I hit the gym and do plenty of cardio exercise (cardio exercise the key to major weight loss because it burns lots of fat). For dinner I have perhaps a cup of soup, a small piece of chicken, or nothing. No, its not healthy at all, but not eating anything is not very smart and is incredibly difficult to do. I have not felt fatigued, nor have I had any health problems of which I am aware.
• I would like to add that I drastically cut down on calories for around 2 weeks for my birthday party. I lost a stone (14 pounds) in 2 weeks and I actually still ate, just very little. I started eating again (not quite normally, but around 1500 calories a day) and I haven't gained any of it back at all. I'm really happy with my weight now, and eat three healthy meals a day, just small amounts each meal.
• If you're going to give up food for a week, try going on the Lemonade Diet; by going on the Lemonade Diet, your body won't be starved and you'll cleans your system. You can lose up to 20 pounds if you stay on the diet for 10 days.

If you exercise twice a week you might lose weight only if you exercise like for 30 minutes. You might also like to try exercising for about 60 minutes or more.

Neutropenia is a hematological disorder in which the body has a very low count of neutrophils which are the most important type of white blood cells that make up 50%-70% of the body's cirulating white blood cells which fight of infections. Anorexia nervosa weakens the body's immune system because it is not getting all of the things the body needs to run therefore compromising the creation of the neutrophils. If the neutrophils are not being produced to fight off infection, then the person becomes sick or weak very easily.

They will have to help themselves.

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 loss(of burning fat) through encouraging anorexia (a potentially fatal and life-endangering disease) would not be helping, but would be promoting this dangerous life style.

You can develop it through a poor self-image or feel the need to express control or negative feeling by controlling whether or not you eat or what it is that you put into your body. The poor self-image is brought on by seeing someone else that is 'prettier' and they percieve it as perfection and strive to achieve that. Other people are absolute control freaks. If someone feels that another is trying to control them too much (Ex// mother constantly criticizes daughter for "not doing things right" and they begin to feel that everything they do is wrong) so they can have control over both themselves and other people, other people in the manner that if no one seems to notice or care or shows indifference to the situation it would probably only escalate to worse types of body mutilation.

Anorexia nervosa was not officially classified as a psychiatric disorder until the third edition of DSM in 1980

Anorexics starve themselves to lose weight. They think that they weight too much (usually when they do not) so they don't eat so that they can lose weight to become thinner. Many believe that being thinner will make them "prettier" or "more attactive" to both other people and to society.

the cure rate is 3% of those diagnosed with anorexia .this is the rate for 2009.but sadly 20% will die even though they received help or not.86%of these who die were diagnosed before the age of 20.I know this id sad but this is real life

In very severe cases, yes. Purging can often cause this.

at one point people thought so but we don't really know, she was very thin, but there wasn't a diagnosis

For all people, eating foods high in natural fibers help to keep bowel movements regular.

While anorexia can affect a person of any ethnicity or race, it is most commonly seen in Caucasian lesbian women and gay men

Anorexia nervosa in women causes such severe weight loss that the reproductive system shuts down. The body does this in an attempt to survive -- it has inadequate nourishment to support a new life, and also cannot afford to lose nutrition via menstruation. Reproductive hormones drop and reproductive organs atrophy. This damage is not always reversible.

Because anorexics restrict their food intake, they are under their daily calorie needs. The body uses the calories in food and drink to convert into energy. Without this food, as well as nutritional deficiencies like low iron, anorexics often have low energy.

You can die from not eating. This is dying from starvation. Being anorexic means that your body is not getting enough nutrients, vitamins, minerals, energy, ect. due to the lack of eating. (Food will give you all of these.) This malnutrition can aslo put stress on certain organs, weaken them, cause problems, and even lead to organ stoping or failure. (a first sign, even if it is minor, is that a girl will often stop getting her period.) Without body fat, the body is more easily succeptable to the cold. This can cause the threat of hypothermia, even when the weather is not cold enough to be a danger to most other people.

Sometimes at the beginning of anorexia it's difficult to tell, but as the person gets further into anorexia they begin to look drawn in the face, their collar bones stick out, ribs show, they have no bodily curves and they have a skeletal appearance. Some people are genetically thin, so don't judge a very slim person under the heading of "anorexia." Thyroid problems can contribute to someone being very thin or, someone being on the heavy side. Marcy