Eating Disorders: Anorexia Nervosa
Anorexia nervosa is a serious issue that affects many people globally. The important question we must ask ourselves is “how can society work to reduce the rates of anorexia and other eating disorders?” To be able to answer this question we must understand what anorexia nervosa is, how many people it affects, its causes, and its effects.Eating Disorders: Anorexia Nervosa
Anorexia nervosa, or more commonly known as anorexia, is a mental and physical illness that causes a person to want to lose weight and keep it off. A person may do this by starving themselves, skipping meals, heavily restricting meals, and or over exercising in an attempt to lose weight. Not everyone with anorexia is underweight, in some cases the effects of anorexia may be a life threatening low pulse, low blood pressure, and deranged electrolytes in the blood.
Anorexia, in most cases, causes people to create a bad relationship with food and have a warped idea of how their bodies should look. No matter how much weight they lose and how thin they become some anorexics believe that they are still too big or that that is not the ideal body type for them. Some more symptoms of anorexia include thinning bone structures that may lead to osteoporosis if too serious, lack of menstruation, anemia, and organ failure.
