Anorexia is an eating disorder. This has to do with excessive weight loss, and an irrational fear for gaining too much weight. Anorexia nervosa can also mean that a person with this disorder will usually have a distorted body self-perception. This disorder is found to start developing in people in their early adult part of life. This disorder usually means people restrict their food intake or may reduce their food intake exageratedly. This may have started from a traumatic experience in their life. The estimated amount of calories that is measured to be taken by a person with anorexia nervosa is about 600 to 800 calories per day. This eating disorder is found in females ten times more than in males. This may be because they think the more skinny they are the more beautiful they are.
There many sypmtoms and sign to detect people with this eating disorder and maybe help them through their troubles. People with this usually overly exagerate by putting themselves on a strict diet, wear large clothing, or may have an irrational fear of gaining too much weight from food. Another set of symptoms or signs maybe depression, refusal to eat food, and or be engaged in frequent exercise.
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