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 ...

Anorexia is a condition that affects every part of you, your body, and your mind. In the world that we live in, where on every magazine cover, every tv show, and even in your home room, you see beautiful, skinny girls that seem to have everything they want. They seem to be popular, always happy, a...

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...

"They have an intense fear. It's so overwhelming that they'd rather be dead than fat." (110 Brownwell) An abusive disease that kills ten percent of its victims is Anorexia Nervosa. This self-starvation disorder affects one percent of all females and is a silent killer (1 Powell)....

Should Pro-ED sites be banned? Pro-ED (Pro-Eating Disorder) or Pro-Ana/Mia are names given to a group of websites that promote Anorexia and Bulimia as life-style choices. There are literally thousands of pro-ED websites that are easily accessible on the web. Some might say that these sites should...

Anorexia Nervosa Some of the most unfortunate and deadly mental disorders are those that fall under the category "eating disorder." An eating disorder is defined as "any of various psychological disorders, such as anorexia nervosa or bulimia, that involve insufficient or excessive ...