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The youngsters and children who suffer from Anorexia Nervosa in early age suffer from low body development, lack of growth of good mental health and particularly with the low growth of sex hormones that make them weaker sexually. You can see many people who have poor body structure and lack of bone density due to their improper nutrition so these children usually have weak bones and there is fear that they may face with bone fracture in their life.
While besides physical body disturbance and weakness it put effect on the brain of human being and person who is diagnose with Anorexia Nervosa have weak structure of their brain and have physiological impact on those people including poor personality, shattered body image.
There are many ways that can be used to cure this disease but first of all you need to find out that you are also suffering from this disease. You can identify this disease from pondering different things including weight of your body. If you think that day by day your body weight is decreasing then this is time to think what main cause for reducing weight is. This is a life threatening disease so you need to cure from this disease to live a healthy life.
You can identify this disease by considering each factor and evaluating it against your personal and physicals characteristics. The main symptoms of this include missing menstrual periods, thinking of hair, drying of skin especially in females and improper digestion of food....
Different cause may result in to Anorexia Nervosa including mental stress, any severe injury or accident, damage to the brain of human being, irregular appetite or lack of proper appetite, distort personally and some emotional fears. But in western countries one of the main reasons is the cultural perception in women to be thin and smart. There are different medications and diets that are suggested by doctors to cure this disease and you can easily cure this disease.
Reference:
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Thomsen, S.R., Weber, M.M., & Brown, L.B. (2002). The relationship between reading beauty and fashion magazines and the use of pathogenic dieting methods among adolescent females. Adolescence, 37, 1-19
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Lask B, and Bryant-Waugh, R (eds) (2000) Anorexia Nervosa and Related Eating Disorders in Childhood and Adolescence. Hove: Psychology Press.
ISBN 0-86377-804-6.
Reference:
Cohen, Juliet. "Identifying Anorexia Nervosa Symptoms." EzineArticles 13 September 2007. 01 October 2007 http://ezinearticles.com/?Identifying-Anorexia-Nervosa-Symptoms&id=730487.
Birmingham CL, Goldner EM, Bakan R. Controlled trial of zinc supplementation in anorexia nervosa. Int J. Eating Disord. 1994;15:251-255.
Thomsen, S.R., Weber, M.M., & Brown, L.B. (2002). The relationship between reading beauty and fashion magazines and the use of pathogenic dieting methods among adolescent females. Adolescence, 37, 1-19
Crisp AH, Lacey JH, Crutchfield M. Clomipramine and 'drive' in people with anorexia nervosa: an inpatient study. Br J. Psychiatry. 1987;150:355-358
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