Understanding Risk Factors for Anorexia
Anorexia has the highest death rate of any mental disorder. Characterized by an extreme form of body dissatisfaction called body image distortion that leads to an extreme limitation on caloric intake, the disorder especially affects young women and can affect both genders at any point of adulthood. Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on [...]
Antipsychotic Drugs May Help Treat Anorexia
Anorexia nervosa affects between .5 and 1 percent of American women. Among those women, between 5 and 20 percent struggling with the disorder will die, according to the National Eating Disorders Association. Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook Share on Linkedin share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Share on technorati Tumblr it [...]
Anorexia and Biology: New MRI Technology May Help Researchers Understand this Deadly Eating Disorder
Anorexia nervosa, a type of eating disorder, is a mental illness that manifests itself in an unreasonable body image and an irrational fear being to fat. To combat the, often non-existent, fat, anorexics dramatically reduce their food intake to the point of emaciation or death. Anorexia is a very deadly disease – it has the [...]
