What is Anorexia?

What is Anorexia? 

Anorexia nervosa is an eating disorder that is characterized by a distorted body image, low body weight combined with an obsessive fear of weight gain.  An anorexic controls their weight by starvation, exercise, vomiting and purging. Other factors include: 

• Refusing to eat, or eating small amounts
• To control weight an anorexic is obsessed with ways to avoid food
• Intense fear of gaining weight
• Exercises constantly and has distorted body image
• Getting thinner and thinner, causing medical problems
• Can literally starve to death