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Anorexia Eating Disorder: Most Prevalent in Western Civilizations

In many cultures today in the Western world the idea of being very thin is often seen as being the same as being very beautiful, as having success as well as happiness. Almost every person alive today knows the effect that weight and body shape has on their own self-image.

This is not to say that eating disorders are only about dieting or vanity. They are not. They are actually complicated psychological aberrations through which a person develops his or her eating patterns and then habitually maintains them as a means of handling other problems that occur in his or her life.

The Dangers of Anorexia

Statistics show that more than five million Americans are afflicted by serious as well as life-threatening eating disorders, including anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, compulsive eating, obesity and pica. If these aberrations are not treated, the emotional, psychological as well as physical penalties can get out of hand and sometimes can even result in death.

Anorexia nervosa is very dangerous. This is when a person intentionally deprives themselves of food. This may even take the extreme form of starving in an attempt to attain much sought after thinness.

Anorexia eating disorder means that the person strives for extreme weight loss, losing all sight of normal body image. Even when they are extremely thin, the person will consider him or herself to be fat. Anorexia eating disorder lowers a person’s self-esteem and mainly affects girls as well as young women.

Anorexia eating disorder is a method of using food or starving the self to feel that the person is more in control of his or her life and also when trying to ease tension, anger and anxiety, it is known to play a major role.

There may be several contributing factors for a person to suffer from an anorexia eating disorder, including biology, culture, personal feelings, stressful events or life changes, and finally, families.

A person suffering anorexia eating disorder won’t feel energetic (because they do not consume enough calories) and so they become progressively weaker, lacking in motivation. If help is not gotten before it is too late, the person with anorexia nervosa can literally starve themselves to death.