Thursday, February 3, 2011

Know about anorexia

Anorexia Nervosa :

Anorexia nervosa is a psychiatric illness that describes an eating disorder characterized by extremely low body weight and body image distortion with an obsessive fear of gaining weight. Individuals with anorexia nervosa are known to control body weight commonly through the means of voluntary starvation, excessive excercise , or other weight control measures such as diet pills or diuretic drugs. "Anorexia nervosa" is frequently shortened to

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