Anorexia Nervosa

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Anorexia Nervosa
     Models are pretty and thin and are often taken as role models of success.  However they must be underweight to look "perfect" on television and magazines.  In order to be thin, they develop a disease called anorexia nervosa.
  Although anorexia and bulimia are related to eating disorders, anorexia nervosa has more background than bulimia.  This essay states what anorexia nervosa is and for how long the disease has been around in society.
There is more tan one definition of anorexia nervosa; however, all describe the same problem.  Here are some of the definitions:
Anorexia nervosa is an eating problem that occurs when a person  is unrealistically concerned about being overweight and therefore eat as little as possible.  This condition is both a physical illness and a psychiatric illness.  Hormone changes result from the low weight and low levels of body fat.  In young women menstruation stops.  Anorexia nervosa can be very severe illness, including a risk of death from starvation (Encarta Encyclopedia, Internet).
Anorexia nervosa is a disorder in which preoccupation with dieting and thinness leads to excessive weight loss.  The individual may not acknowledge that weight loss or restricted eating is a problem (www.anorexia.com, Internet).
The American Anorexia Nervosa Association  defines anorexia as a  "serious illness of deliberate  self-starvation with profound psychiatric and physical components."
Now that we know what anorexia means, lets narrate how this disease came to be noticeable.  We have the knowledge that anorexia nervosa is affecting a greater number of individuals.  Although it was discovered not so long ago, anorexia nervosa has been around for quite a while.   According to Neuman, there is evidence of the presence of an identical condition that proceeds from ancient times, long before the diagnosis was defined.  Later, in the Middle Ages, goodness was equated with thinness.  The acceptance of thinness was a view that angels were so good and pure that they must be very thin.  Everyone talked about how thin these angels were, and how they could gather around in a persons head.  This issue developed a so-called miracle maidens.
In the middle ages and later, there were miracle maidens who purported to live on air, were fed by the fairies when nobody was there, or toyed occasionally with such delicacies as the juice of a roasted raisin. People traveled for miles to see these living wonders.  Most were frauds….but a few ma...

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