Amenorrhea is a problem that affects many women of all ages. There are three types of amenorrhea: primary, secondary, and athletic. The causation of each type is different and so the way to treat each of them is different. Some amenorrhea is harmless and has no bad effects on the body, but th...

Anorexia nervosa is an eating disorder that mainly affects girls but boys can still suffer from it. Anorexia nervosa starts in the early teens and surveys suggest 1 per cent of school girls and uni students have anorexia nervosa. The disease is most common in the western part of the world and woman ...

What Is Anorexia? It's got a fancy Latin name: anorexia nervosa, "nervous want of appetite." It's a killer. One in 10 cases ends in death. People with anorexia starve themselves by eating far too little food. Eventually they become dangerously thin -- yet they still see themselves as fat. Peo...

Overview Anorexia nervosa essentially is self-starvation. Vomiting and abuse of laxatives, diuretics or exercise may be additional elements in an anorexic person's effort to control weight. Bulimia nervosa involves "binge eating and purging." Which is consuming large, high-calorie meals a...

Anorexia Nervosa In January of 1999, a ten year old girl named Kelsey asked her parents if she could go to 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&apos...

To Eat, or Not to Eat Located forty minutes west of Cincinnati is Miami University. Only 16,000 students reside at Miami University, yet we boasts two professional basketball players (Wally Szerbiac and Ron Harper), a top twenty hokey team, two consecutive synchronized ice-skating national cham...