Anorexia Nervosa

Only about 20% of all anorexics will ever fully recover and maintain a healthy weight. About 50%, post-treatment, will maintain a healthy lifestyle for at least a few months before relapsing.

1/2 ~jmata

It may not be right after eating, but it has to be soon enough that the food is still in your stomach and hasn't really begun to be digested and stuff yet. Generally is it within 30 mins. to 1hour 30 mins after eating that bulimics will throw up.

A person with an eating disorder is usually referred to by their disorder. For example, a person with anorexia is called an anorexic. A person with bulimia is called a bulimic. A person who suffers from binge-eating or compulsive-over-eating disorder are called binge or emotional eaters.

You don't have to be really skinny to be a model, you should be skinny but toned as well. My advice is to have a healthy diet which includes some daily exercise like sit-ups or Jackknives.Just promise me you wont go on a crash diet :S its just sooo unhealthy (:

Sometimes in this society it is used as a synonym for being thin, nd in that sense it can do, but when spoken of as the actual psychological illness, i wouldn't say it does.

Whether or not Kelly Ripa is in fact anorexic, yes she would be "aware". You know what you are, and you know that what you are doing is wrong, but you are too consumed in the feeling that you can't stop. So obviously, she would know if she was. But it's her secret to keep.

Anyone can potentially become anorexic. Those who are more likely are....

*Women

*Between the ages of 12 and 26

*Those who live in the Western Hemisphere of the world

*Alcoholic / Drug Addict

*Those who suffer from low self-esteem, depression, BDD (Body Dismorphic Disorder), low self body image, ect.

*Family history

*Friends who suffer from similar eating disorder

*White / Caucasian

*From an upper- or middle-class family

Yes, anorexia can recur. It usually ends up being a life-long struggle because the person learned how to deal with their problems by exerting control over their own bodies and it is a vicious cycle that is hard to break.

In order to work properly, the heart requires adequate amounts of potassium, sodium, calcium, magnesium and other electrolytes in a certain balance. If these components are not present in the required amounts the electrical activity of the heart is interrupted. This is what happened to the 70's singer, Karen Carpenter. She had anorexia and did not take in enough food to supply her heart with what it needed and she died from a cardiac arrest. Her heart just stopped beating because it had no more fuel on which to run. Anorexia also destroys the other organs in the body and the muscles as well because the body thinks it is being starved to death, which it actually is, and begins to feed off of itself. Other people have gone into kidney failure and required dialysis for what time they lived after that; some people have messed up their intestines to the point where they will never work the same again. Anorexia is very dangerous. It is a compulsion and requires professional intervention. If you are the anorexic, please get help for yourself! You are worth so much more than just starving yourself to death for what you think is an attractive body image.

Both anorexics and bulimics are cautious about how much they eat around other people and what kinds of foods they ingest. They do not like to eat around other people (secrecy is the name of the game). They both starve themselves for long periods of time (bulimics just make up for it by stuffing it all down later). They might appear bloated, but that is mostly bulimics due to water retention so I suppose it depends on how much the anorexic is vomiting.

Every person is different, but I can tell you that starving yourself will not help you lose weight. Your body will actually start to hold onto weight after about 3 days of starving yourself and anything with fat that you put into your body will go straight for the fat reserves. Your body will think it is headed for hard times and that it will need all the fat it can take. So you would hurting your body more than anything, probably even gaining weight once you do decide to eat. Also, you could cause yourself a heart or brain problems from starving yourself. That is what happened to Terri Schiavo, her extreme dieting methods caused her brain damage. Be smart about weight loss, the simple method that works is to cut your calorie intake and start exercising. There is no easy way around it and especially if you want to lose weight and keep it off.

Anorexia nervosa can produce a serious strain on many organs., particularly on the structure and function of the heart and cardiovascular system. In early stages there occurs bradycardia (slow heart rate) and elongation of the QT interval. People with anorexia typically have a disturbed electrolyte balance, particularly low levels of phosphate. Phosphate is linked to heart failure, muscle weakness, immune dysfunction, and ultimately death. If anorexia develop before adulthood they may suffer with stunted growth and subsequent low levels of essential hormones (including sex hormones) and chronically increased cortisol levels. Anorexia also leads to osteoporosis (38-50% of cases), because poor nutrition leads to the retarded growth of essential bone structure and low bone mineral density. Anorexia does not harm everyone in the same way. For example, evidence suggests that the results of the disease in adolescents may differ from those in adults.

Anorexics commonly abuse exercise as a way to burn off calories to lose even more weight.

Nearly all people who suffer from anorexia have low or vunerable self-esteem. This can also be related to depression, being shy, isolation, and anxiety in trying to be "better" or to be "perfect".

Yes. Anorexics will eat some food, but it is often too little to be healthy or very low in calories and fat content.

The youngest public information is of 8 years old, which was confirmed in a young girl named Dana in the UK. There have been reports of children younger, but there have not been confirmation reports or deatils, often due to privacy restirction from their young age.

Yes, they are.

Normally does but not always. Some children can develop anorexia at as young as six, but this is very rare.

Down Syndrome people are usually smaller than the average person and im sure it would be possible for a dwarf down syndrome person such as two dwarf people who have a down syndrome child

Anorexia is not associated with a willingness to eat. Anorexics are not "lazy", either, as they will often exercise or constantly be moving to burn calories. Many anorexics are not very social as they tend to isolate or suffer from depression, too.

In those who recover, energy intakes return to normal.~jmata

Of course.

Your body stores fat because it does not need it, when you get hungry your body uses the fat cells to power it.

Also if you're considering going anorexic please don't, all the guys I know barf at the fact that someone could get so skinny.

Once your body has eaten all your fat it starts to eat your muscles leaving you week and vulnerable.Eventually your body will have eaten all it can from your muscles then next go to your heart which at this stage if you do not start to put on weight will event in death.

Here are some links that might help if this did not:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anorexia_nervosa

http://www.mamashealth.com/anorexia.asp

No. Most anorexics, in fact, are either normal weight or underweight.

Yes, being anorexic will delay your period. Menstruation only occurs when you ovulate, and you will only ovualte regularly when you are healthy. Starving your body will cause stress and ill-health which can result in your body delaying or stopping ovulation so there's no risk of you becoming pregnant at a time when your body isn't well enough to cope.