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What is anorexia and how does someone become anorexic?
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An Eating Disorder: Anorexia nervosa is an eating disorder where the individual refuses to maintain an appropriate body weight, restricts intake and has a distorted body image. It is a serious mental illness with the highest mortality rate of any other mental disorder. No one fully understands how a person becomes anorexic. The onset of the illness is insidious. Fortunately there is effective treatment.
Answered 12/10/2013
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