Anorexia nervosa is a type of eating disorder in which people are near starvation. People with anorexia eat very little, even if they are already thin. They have an intense and overwhelming fear of body fat and weight gain, repeated attempts to diet and excessive weight loss.
People with anorexia are often perfectionists and perfectionists who seem to be under control identified. In fact, suffer from a lack of self esteem and too critical. They are also very nice to others.
Anorexia affects 0.4 to 1 percent of the population of young women with a mean age of onset between 12 and 19. An estimated 0.6 percent to 4.5 percent of women suffer from anorexia in life.
The symptoms of anorexia
Anorexia is identified, in part, by refusing to eat, a strong desire to be thin, repeated attempts to diet and excessive weight loss.
To maintain an abnormally low weight, people with anorexia can fast diet or exercise. often engage in behaviors such as induced vomiting or abuse laxatives or diuretics, enemas. People with anorexia believe they are overweight even when they are very thin.
Often, the disease develops after stressful events, such as the onset of puberty or an extract from the home of his parents.