| Anorexia can be termed or also mean as person | | | | kicking in. Due to the shrinking body there |
| who has lost his/her appetite. It can be seen | | | | is drop in the body temperature which makes |
| as a form of disease which is very harmful | | | | the person more vulnerable to cold. Even with |
| posing a threat to your life. This is a | | | | the body remaining 1/4 of its size the person |
| voluntary starving process wherein people | | | | suffering with this disorder find themselves |
| kill their desire to eat and end up starving | | | | to be fat, which can be maintained as a |
| oneself. There are many components which | | | | psychological barrier. |
| makes this disease complex such as | | | | |
| psychological, sociological and | | | | The people who are mostly affected with |
| physiological. The weight loss doesn't happen | | | | anorexia are mostly girls or women of very |
| very rapidly but it is a very slow process | | | | young age. The portrayal of abnormally thin |
| and looks like any other weight reducing | | | | women in advertisements and movies as |
| programme in the beginning. But it is after | | | | embodiments of beauty has made young women |
| some months you realize the effect it has | | | | and teenaged girls want to be like them. This |
| taken upon your health. | | | | alone cannot be considered as the factor |
| | | | determining the anorexic patients. Other |
| This affects the personality of the person | | | | factors like eating disorders, genetics, |
| drastically and the outgoing and extrovert | | | | environment, personalities and bio-chemistry. |
| person becomes very introvert and subdued. | | | | For many anorexia starts off for activities |
| The level of concentration starts depleting | | | | like dance, sports which require a certain |
| too which proves to be big problem for many | | | | body structure. Such kind of disorders also |
| young people who are the major victims in | | | | run in families and girls find themselves at |
| this disease. The inability to maintain 15 | | | | a higher risk of getting affected by this |
| percent of an individual's normal weight is | | | | disease. |
| one of the very serious matters which have to | | | | |
| be handled very delicately. Due to starving | | | | Treatment for such a disease is reversible. |
| process there are repeated practices of binge | | | | Once it is diagnosed the treatment should |
| eating and vomiting. Fear plays a very | | | | begin immediately. Most of these cases if |
| important part, as it the fear of putting on | | | | detected early, the success rate is good too. |
| weight, that they discard the idea of being | | | | Once detected most of these patients are |
| hungry which can also be said as killing | | | | admitted in the hospital and treated |
| yourself gradually and slowly. | | | | accordingly. There is a weight gain program |
| | | | and it takes time depending upon the |
| The shrinking body is the number one sign you | | | | individual. A set target for food intake per |
| would see in all the people suffering from | | | | week is assigned which accordingly is |
| anorexia. The minimal body weight of the | | | | increased so as to get the person back on his |
| person is also not maintained which makes it | | | | her feet, literally. There are different kind |
| very risky for the person. Body doesn't get | | | | of therapies such as normal, group, |
| enough supplements in the form of vitamins or | | | | individual and family. There is lot of |
| proteins due to which the nail and hair | | | | emotional baggage for many people who suffer |
| becomes brittle and the skin without any | | | | from anorexia and those feeling have to be |
| source of energy turns yellow and pale. In | | | | dealt with, by some psychological sessions or |
| such kind of health, psychologically the | | | | other therapies. |
| person is traumatized, and depression starts | | | | |