Anorexia Nervosa is characterized by self-starvation in which there is excessive weight loss of at least 15% of body weight, a distorted body image and a design to maintain body weight below normal. Obsessive thinking about controlling food and weight may also by present, along with excessive exercising.

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Research suggests that about one percent (1%) of female adolescents have anorexia. That means that about one out of every one hundred young women between ten and twenty are starving themselves, sometimes to death. (ANRED)