Anorexia Nervosa Anorexia nervosa is refereed to as the self-starvation syndrome. The patients of this disease manifest themselves in an extreme aversion to food and can cause psychological, endocrine and gynecological problems. It affects both male and female, but most of the patients are adolescent girls, with symptoms involving a refusal to eat, large weight loss, a bizarre preoccupation with food, hyperactivity, a distorted body image and cessation of menstruation. Although the symptoms can be corrected if the patient is diagnosed, and treated in time, about 6.6 percent of anorexia nervosa patients die, usually after losing least half their normal body weight. In striving to be attractive by loosing weight, a person with anorexia may begin to diet in order to lose just a few pounds. But, they don't stop di....

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