Anorexia is an eating disorder that affects people who choose not to maintain a healthy weight. They accomplish this through different extreme measures. They achieve this through starvation and at points even start to purge. This is a very serious eating disorder and can even end in death. There are serious emotional effects on the person as well. Depression can also be a side effect of the disease. An anorexic can have a body weight that is on average 15% lower than the normal weight for the person in questions age and height. People who have this extreme of a disorder can usually not see that they are actually severely under weight and they think they are very over weight. Many ways that people who suffer this disorder is by cutting back on the calories and fat they take in, intensive exercises or purging such as vomiting or using laxatives in order to lose more weight. Another side effect of anorexia is females will lose their periods. If you think you have any of these simples talk to you doctor as soon as you can to get support and treatment for this disorder.
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