Anorexia

Anorexia Anorexia Nervosa Anorexia first showed up in the Middle Ages over 500 years ago. Back then it was called Anorexia Mirabilis, which means loss of appetite caused by a miracle. In those days women fasting were considered special people because they could live on such small amounts of food. This idea had changed about 200 years later. Anorexic women were no longer thought to be special people because the church thought it was inspired by the devil. Then around 1870 a well-known English doctor came to the conclusion that there actually was a starving disease and named the disorder what it is today. Just 300 years ago eating disorders hit the textbooks. To some people the effort to become thin can become an obsession, even life threatening. Eating disorders happen more in Industrialized nations, primarily because of all the social pressures to being thin. Thinness is very measurable with attractiveness. Anorexia mainly affects white females 12-24 by 90%, with a growing number of males, mainly of middle to upper class for both genders. The term Anorexia is of Greek anorexia, very, people, disease, weight, patient, means, even, eating, disorders, appetite, treatment, person, loss, heart, food, eat, during, doctors, disorder, become, because, about, years, women, symptoms, self, rate, physical, help, fat, depression, called, way, true