| The common belief among people is that anorexic | | | | anorexia is that they are constantly fearing weight gain |
| people actually lose the capability to feel hunger. They | | | | and will not maintain a normal healthy body weight. |
| couldn't be more wrong. In fact people suffering from | | | | Side effects felt because of anorexia may range from |
| this disorder fight a constant unrelenting battle against | | | | dry skin, loss of hair and even, as seen in more severe |
| hunger in order to be slimmer or thinner. The fact is | | | | cases, loss of menstruating periods. Patients have a |
| that eating disorders like anorexia and bulimia are quite | | | | constant belief that they are fatter than they actually |
| difficult to predict. In the vast majority of cases people | | | | are. They most certainly starve themselves and |
| are very secretive about what they do, so symptoms | | | | exercise constantly in order to reach a lower body |
| are hard to see. Studies show that up to 15% of | | | | weight. Because of these extreme measure that they |
| young women develop bad eating habits but only a | | | | take, they often have problems concentrating and |
| few of them get anorexia. | | | | coping with outside temperatures ( they have a |
| The sad thing is that actually the society in which we | | | | constant feeling of being cold). Leaving the disease |
| live in sets the standards for women through the | | | | untreated will usually lead to the severe aggravation of |
| skinny fashion models that we see on the catwalks. | | | | the patient, and in worst cases actually to death. |
| Because of this almost 80% of women claim to be | | | | Bulimia is also one of today's eating disorders. The only |
| dissatisfied with the way they look. In the USA alone | | | | thing is that it stands for voracious appetite. It also |
| the amounts of money that are spent on dieting | | | | involves binge eating. People suffering from this |
| products and diets are absolutely astronomical. This | | | | disorder also perceive them selves to be fatter than |
| diet dieters have also the bad habit of later on | | | | they are and experience uncontrolled and chaotic |
| developing compulsive attitudes. Anorexia is not just a | | | | eating behavior. This is most often followed by self |
| physical condition, the fact being that women with this | | | | induced vomiting. Other practices would be excessive |
| disorder have low self esteem and suffer immense | | | | use of laxatives and diuretics in order to keep a |
| brake downs. The vast majority of people that | | | | perfect body shape. This constant behavior usually |
| develop this disease is teenage girls and young | | | | leads to many problems such as depressions, heart |
| women, but older women and men are also prone to | | | | damage, kidney damage, and of course damage to |
| developing it. Anorexia involves excessive obsessions | | | | other parts of the digestive system. In most extreme |
| regarding weight loss, food and of course calories. | | | | cases the patient can also end up with severe mental |
| People often refer to the illness as slimmer's disease. | | | | trauma. |
| The most common fact about patients suffering from | | | | |