Anorexia Nervosa Research Paper

Eating Disorders Anorexia Nervosa is an eating disorder in which someone desires to lose weight, dreads gaining weight and is characterized by starvation and an unhealthy amount of weight loss. About 95% of those experiencing anorexia nervosa are women or girls and it is an extremely prevalent psychiatric disorders in young women. Some of the characteristics for this eating disorder are: an extreme amount of weight loss, refusing to eat certain foods and becoming very concerned with counting all of their caloric intake and dieting, eating foods at specific times or in specific ways, withdrawal from people close to them, abundant amount of exercise, fainting and an inability to get a full night’s sleep. Those affected by anorexia nervosa usually restrict the amount of food intake because of an unreasonable fear of gaining weight or being overweight. The food intake is not ample enough to sustain a healthy lifestyle. Many times, they may be hungry and will not eat because of their fear that they will gain weight. Those with this eating disorder usually have complicated feeling about their body image; they may think of themselves as overweight when in reality they are not. Anorexia Nervosa can prompt very serious health problems. According to “Contemporary Nutrition” about 3% of those whom the eating disorder affects, die, depending on the length in which they suffer …show more content…
Some of effects of anorexia nervosa are heart complications that can later lead to heart failure, anemia, bone loss, muscle loss, lower amount of white blood cells, changes in how neurotransmitters work and severe dehydration that can