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• Anorexia nervosa: characteristics, signs, and health effects
• Negative body image increases the risk of eating disorders.
• It is associated with depression, isolation, low self-esteem, and obsessions with weight loss.
• Anorexia nervosa is an eating disorder involving an intense fear of gaining weight and severe restriction of food intake.
• It mainly affects adolescent girls and young women but can also affect men.
• A person may have a low body weight, refuse to maintain a normal weight, or believe they are fat despite being very thin.
• Other possible characteristics include fear of becoming fat and missing three consecutive menstrual periods after menstruation has begun.
• Anorexia can damage many parts of the body and harm overall health.
• Signs of anorexia include physical, eating-related, emotional, and social changes.
• Physical signs may include substantial weight loss, frequent illness, and being too thin while thinking one is fat.
• Eating-related signs may include strict dieting, counting calories, weighing food, refusing to eat in front of others, and denying hunger.
• Extreme weight-loss measures may include self-induced vomiting, laxative or diuretic abuse, diet pills, fasting, and excessive exercise.
• Emotional and social signs may include depression, irritability, avoiding socializing, weighing oneself repeatedly, and wearing baggy clothes to hide one's appearance.