INFORMATION ABOUT ANOREXIA
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WHAT IS ANOREXIA?
Anorexia is a mentall illness that makes the person be scared of gaining weight. They also think they look a diffreent way than they actually do.
Even someone with a very low weight will think they need to lose weight even though they should gain weight to be healthy.
Anorexia is becoming more and more common in westerm civilization. It is thought of as "mature atractiveness". After studies it has been found that the dieses is mostly found in white people that are involved in things like dancing, theatre, and distance running. Anorexia is found mostly in girls but some experts believe that boys develop anorexia and it unreported!It mostly developsin the late teens but other cases have been reported.

BEHAVIORS AND PSYCHOLOGICAL SYMPTOMS
About 30% of people who presently have anorexia will or have developed bulimia. Others enven eat tones of food at one time then prform self induced vomiting to get rid of all the food they hade consumed so they don't gane any weight from the food they ate. This is the fastest way to kill your self from anorexia. Others include not eating anything at all, and also doing extreme exersise to get rid of non existant weight.
People who have anorexia usualy share personality traits like perfectionism, low self asteem, a need for control, and difficulty expressing emotions. As the anorexia gets worse the person may go into depression, lack of sleep, and may remove them selves from friends and family.

CAUSES/TREATMENTAND PREVENTION
Most western medical scientists think that the most common in western culture because of the focus on thinness and beauty. Girls that develop this are thinking no one will think they are beautiful if they are not less than say 90 pounds. Other causes could be the loss of a family member or another disease. The victim could have experience abuse of any kind.
Anorexia is normally treated with phychtherapy depending on the person and how bad they are they could end up in the hospital. Family members are usually involved with the tratment.
If the disease progressed so much that there is no cure the person would die of lack of nutrition.