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Anorexia Nervosa - Term Papers

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 ...

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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 ...

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Added: 11/2/2005 07:35:55 AM
Category: Health & Medicine
Type: Premium Paper
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