What Is Anorexia Nervosa? What Can Be Done For It?
Anorexia Nervosa is an eating disorder that is found on many college campuses. This disorder is an attempt to lose weight through self-starvation. They lose the weight by the body using up all the energy stores and eventually going to the tissues. People with this disorder may be extremely underweight, however, they see themselves as =84fat=BE, deny any of their eating problems with their eating habits, and will ignore any efforts made to get them to eat or return to a more healthy weight. This disorder along with Bulimia occurs more frequently in young women. It is predicted that one in twenty college women have some type of eating disorder. Individual psychotherapy, medical and nutritional counseling, and self-help support groups are ways to help the individual stabilize eating patterns, maintain a healthy weight, and become less engrossed with food.
