Anorexia Nervosa - By: iris0326

Anorexia Nervosa is a life threatening condition that can put a serious strain on many of the body's organs and physiological resources. Weight loss is usually 15% below the person's normal body weight. People suffering from anorexia are very skinny but are convinced that they are overweight.

Anorexics have an intense fear of becoming fat. Their dieting habits develop from this fear. Anorexia mainly affects adolescent girls. The term anorexia literally means loss of appetite, but this is a misnomer. In fact, people with anorexia nervosa ignore hunger and thus control their desire to eat. Women with anorexia often also limit or restrict other parts of their lives besides food, including relationships, social activities, or pleasure.

There are various approaches for the treatment of anorexia nervosa. It is a very difficult disease to treat as the patients do often not accept that they are ill, or doing anything that is inappropriate, or likely to have a detrimental effect on their health.

If the sufferer's do not have any success with treatment, then occasionally it can be helpful to have a brief or extended period of hospitalization. This can be beneficial as it removes any outside pressures and access to things such as pro anorexia web sites that can undermine treatment and encourage the sufferer to continue with their regime.

Anorexia is such a terrible disease, and the effects of it are devastating, to both the victim and to the people that love them. When the disease reaches its worst levels, it can actually lead to a gruesome death. The easiest way to treat this disease is to detect it early. It is much easier to prevent the disease from the onset than it is to try and cure the effects of it.

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