Anorexia The author of this report has been charged with covering and summarizing the eating disorder known as anorexia nervosa, or anorexia for short. Along with bulimia, they are the two most prominent and nasty eating disorders that exist among the people of the world. While women are more commonly associated with anorexia, men can develop it as well. What will be covered in this report has it pertains to anorexia will include what it is, who identified and discovered it, how people deal with it and how people end up overcoming it. While it can be a huge challenge for someone to battle and overcome anorexia, it is entirely possible with the right counseling and patient determination.

There is some debate about who first described and identified anorexia. Depending on whom one believes, it was discovered either by British physician William Withey Gull or French Neuropsychiatrist Ernest Charles Lasegue. They both seemed to have come to the same revelations and discoveries about the disorder in 1873, although they seem to have done so independent of one another. Gull seems to have made a "cryptic" mention to the disorder in 1868 but there is no hard proof one way or the other who came up with the discovery first (Vandereycken, 1989). In any event, much more has come to be known about the disorder in the nearly century and a half that has lapsed since then. As noted in the introduction, women are much more prone to develop anorexia than men. At its...

While there are stages and degrees of the disorder, those at risk are those that are fifteen percent or more less than their ideal body weight. For example, someone whose normal body weight is 150 pounds would be in a danger zone if they slipped below 128 pounds or so. Besides gender, other risk factors are people that are high achievers, perfectionists, models, athletes or any realistic combination of that list. Anorexia typically manifests during or near puberty but people of all ages from the teen years onwards can develop the disorder (WebMD, 2016).
Warning signs for those that are definitely or potentially anorexic include a significant amount of weight loss, an intense fear of getting fat, turning away food for no obvious reason, denying that hunger exists, constant or excessive exercise, sensitivity to cold, absent or abnormal menstrual periods, hair loss, tooth decay or loss, fatigue, social isolation, vomiting (intentional or incidental) and the misuse of laxatives, diuretics or enemas. Treatment of anorexia requires a full and comprehensive medical and mental care approach. This would include continuous medical care that encompasses regular therapy visits, nutritional counseling and, depending on the…