Anorexia

Anorexia It seemed to me that the older I get, the more obsessed people seemed about their bodies. Whether it was the diet soda boom of the 80's, or the fact everyone has always been unhappy with his or her natural bodies; it just took me a while to comprehend. It always seemed like there were diets here, diets there, these drugs can do this, or these herbs can do, that I just tell myself "Stop the insanity!" Anorexia is believed to be primarily an illness of the mind or illness of psychological origin, however it has significant medical and physical consequences. This paper is going to discuss anorexia nervosa, an alarming disease that is usually developed during puberty of both boys and girls. Like bulimia, in which the subject binges and then disposes of ingested food by purging or use of laxatives, those suffering anorexia nervosa have an obsession with the amount of fat on themselves. This results in the loss of appetite completely and dangerous weight loss. More than thirty years ago one of this century's major sex symbols sang, "Happy Birthday, Mr. President," on television. With her size fourteen to sixteen figure, it is doubtful that society's standards anorexia, nervosa, weight, about, children, food, patient, family, puberty, others, anorectic, treatment, thin, television, subject, physical, girls, eat, over, body, step, out, natural, must, likely, just, however, happy, first, during, class, childhood, being, before, back, approach, appearance, while, very, think, sometimes, results, questions, process, peers, patients, paper, one, maturation, important, hunger