Understanding Anorexia

Anorexia nervosa is a psychiatric diagnosis that describes an eating disorder. Its characterized by low body weight and body image distortion, with an obsessive fear of gaining weight. Individuals with anorexia often control body weight using voluntary starvation, purging, vomiting, excessive exercise, or other extreme weight control measures including diet pills and diuretic drugs. Though it primarily affects adolescent females, young men are not immune. Learn the newest ways of identifying and treating anorexia nervosa.