Wanting to lose weight pretty much is the main cause of anorexia. Other factors can be if a person is already thin and they become anorexic out of desparate attempts to stay thin, but that happens much less often.
No. Anorexia is severe underweight. It has several causes, often psychological, but is not a cause itself.
Anorexia is uniquely characterized bybthe refusal to eat with a compulsive desire to exercise, all in an irrational fear of gaining weight.
To some extent, yes. Anorexics have an unnatural desire to lose weight past the point of being "thin" and take it to an unhealthy extreme.
The irrational fear of gaining weight as well as the desire to maintain a severely underweight body are symptoms of anorexia nervosa .
the lack of essential nutrients that you need from food
The irrational fear of gaining weight as well as the desire to maintain a severely underweight body are symptoms of anorexia nervosa .
The irrational fear of gaining weight as well as the desire to maintain a severely underweight body are symptoms of anorexia nervosa .
Bulimia and Anorexia are eating disorders that often result in weight loss.
Anorexia, bulimia.
Anorexia is a mental disorder. It causes rapid weight-loss, constantly worrying and thinking about calorie intake, extreme malnourishment.
Anorexia nervosa is starving yourself to the point of either death or long term disability. It is probably a psychological illness that effects mainly women (and some men), that is caused when females think they are too fat or when they feel they have no control in their lives and the only thing they can control is their appetite. There may be psychical causes of the illness, such as a problem with glands, but, most think it is a mental illness. It takes a lot of therapy to save a person who is anorexic. Many die, directly from the disease, or indirectly from the medical problems the illness causes. Anorexia was unknown to the general public, until February 4 1983, when world famous Karen Carpenter, singer/drummer of the 1970s group the Carpenters, died from cardiac arrest due to anorexia nervosa.
Anorexia Nervosa