beautiful, popular, and loved you must be thin, you must be thin, you must be THIN." After a lifetime of hearing this message over and over and over again, children may not think there is any reason to be happy with what they are and feel thinness is the ultimate goal to be happy and accepted by others. As a result, some children may skip breakfast, eat a little for lunch, or even adopt some form of diet. This may only last for a week or so, but for others, the obsession of thinness is higher and the price they pay is frightening. This paper is going to discuss the cycles of anorexia nervosa. It will detail the symptoms, behavior, and clinical observations. It will describe the possible causes of anorexia nervosa through childhood growth and puberty, childhood eating and social behavior, and the maturation of children during puberty. Finally, I will discuss the treatment and results of treatment for anorexia nervosa. Before going into the details of anorexia nervosa, there are a few individual traits that may appear in a person that may have an eating disorder: low self-esteem, feelings of uselessness or care, issues of control, and fear of maturation. The more physical description is frightening. The anorectic victim does not look "thin" as society's standards portray, but are in fact a walking skeleton with the absence of subcutaneous fat. Her weight may range from as little as 56-70 pounds or 77-91 pounds. Though clothes are likely to cover most of her figure, her face appears thin and her skin is cold and red or blue in color. Do to the lack of fat in her body, her menstrual cycle is likely to have stopped. Despite these conditions, she still sees herself overweight and unacceptable. Thinness is idealism and perfection. It is her choice that no one else can take away from her. At the beginning of anorexia nervosa the person will first change her diet, restricting how much she eats and usually cutting out starchy foods. Seventy-per...