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a weight loss camp in the summer. Kelsey wasn’t very over weight, but her parents decided if that would make her feel better about herself, then why not? What her parents didn’t know was that this was the first step towards Anorexia Nervosa. After the camp, she came home and immediately started dieting and exercising. Her parents approved, thinking that it wouldn’t do her any harm to lose a couple pounds. Slowly she began cutting whole food groups from her diet. Soon, she stopped eating with her parents, saying she already ate or just wasn’t hungry.
People began commenting on her weight. Kelsey loved the attention. Her parents were beginning to suspect her unhealthy eating patterns. She was indeed far too thin. Her mother took her to the doctor, and he talked to her about the proper nutrition she needed. Kelsey agreed to try to eat healthier. Barbara (Kelsey’s mother) really thought that this would work for Kelsey. However, the weight continued to “melt” off. She was cold all the time. Kelsey seemed to be weighing herself obsessively, so her parents took away her scale away from her. Her parents would not let her ex
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Anorectics may exercise all the time. Women are not the only ones with this disorder though.
Anorexia Nervosa is a very popular eating disorder. Obsessed with weight loss and the fear of becoming fat, many anorectics see their normal folds of flesh as “fat” that must be lost immediately. As the eating disorder continues, they may withdraw from friends, family and any usual activities. ercise, unless she ate something first. Sometimes anorectic patients become very impatient, and then the process can take up to twelve to sixteen weeks, but for a full recovery, it will take up to eighteen months. A few weeks later, the feeding tube was removed. Only two to three percent of anorectics die with treatment. Blood pressure falls, breathing rate slows down, and activity of the thyroid gland diminishes. Kelsey was then put in the ICU for about two weeks, then in the regular pediatrics unit for a few more weeks. With treatment, about sixty percent of anorectics recover, and twenty percent make only partial recoveries. However, recent studies have shown that Anorexia can show in children as young as six and as old as seventy-six. The body soon responds to this disorder and it slows down or even stops certain bodily functions.
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