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Sources: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8POqZODYEB4

https://www.nationaleatingdisorders.org/anorexia-nervosa

https://www.nationaleatingdisorders.org/anorexia-nervos

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Anorexia can be caused by seeing the medias image of what people are "supposed" to look like. But anorexia can also be a biological disease.

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Anorexia is an eating disorder that effects around 70 million people worldwide. 1 in 5 women struggle with some form of an eating disorder.

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HOPE and Other Luxuries BY: Claire B Dunkle

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HOPE and Other Luxuries BY: Claire B Dunkle

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"As I watched her, the tiny flame of optimism in my heart guttered and went out." (155 Dunkle)

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To learn more about the disease anorexia read the following article.

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Anorexia nervosa is an eating disorder characterized by weight loss (or lack of appropriate weight gain in growing children); difficulties maintaining an appropriate body weight for height, age, and stature; and, in many individuals, distorted body image. People with anorexia generally restrict the number of calories and the types of food they eat. Some people with the disorder also exercise compulsively, purge via vomiting and laxatives, and/or binge eat.

Anorexia can affect people of all ages, genders, sexual orientations, races, and ethnicities. Historians and psychologists have found evidence of people displaying symptoms of anorexia for hundreds or thousands of years.

Although the disorder most frequently begins during adolescence, an increasing number of children and older adults are also being diagnosed with anorexia. You cannot tell if a person is struggling with anorexia by looking at them. A person does not need to be emaciated or underweight to be struggling. Studies have found that larger-bodied individuals can also have anorexia, although they may be less likely to be diagnosed due to cultural prejudice against fat and obesity.

DIAGNOSTIC CRITERIA

To be diagnosed with anorexia nervosa according to the DSM-5, the following criteria must be met:

1. Restriction of energy intake relative to requirements leading to a significantly low body weight in the context of age, sex, developmental trajectory, and physical health.

2. Intense fear of gaining weight or becoming fat, even though underweight.

3. Disturbance in the way in which one's body weight or shape is experienced, undue influence of body weight or shape on self-evaluation, or denial of the seriousness of the current low body weight.

Even if all the DSM-5 criteria for anorexia are not met, a serious eating disorder can still be present. Atypical anorexia includes those individuals who meet the criteria for anorexia but who are not underweight despite significant weight loss. Research studies have not found a difference in the medical and psychological impacts of anorexia and atypical anorexia.

WARNING SIGNS & SYMPTOMS OF ANOREXIA NERVOSA
Emotional and behavioral

Dramatic weight loss

Dresses in layers to hide weight loss or stay warm

Is preoccupied with weight, food, calories, fat grams, and dieting

Refuses to eat certain foods, progressing to restrictions against whole categories of food (e.g., no carbohydrates, etc.)

Makes frequent comments about feeling "fat" or overweight despite weight loss

Complains of constipation, abdominal pain, cold intolerance, lethargy, and/or excess energy

Denies feeling hungry

Develops food rituals (e.g., eating foods in certain orders, excessive chewing, rearranging food on a plate)

Cooks meals for others without eating

Consistently makes excuses to avoid mealtimes or situations involving food

Expresses a need to "burn off" calories taken in

Maintains an excessive, rigid exercise regimen - despite weather, fatigue, illness, or injury

Withdraws from usual friends and activities and becomes more isolated, withdrawn, and secretive

Seems concerned about eating in public

Has limited social spontaneity

Resists or is unable to maintain a body weight appropriate for their age, height, and build

Has intense fear of weight gain or being "fat," even though underweight

Has disturbed experience of body weight or shape, undue influence of weight or shape on self-evaluation, or denial of the seriousness of low body weight

Postpuberty female loses menstrual period

Feels ineffective

Has strong need for control

Shows inflexible thinking

Has overly restrained initiative and emotional expression

Stomach cramps, other non-specific gastrointestinal complaints (constipation, acid reflux, etc.)

Difficulties concentrating

Abnormal laboratory findings (anemia, low thyroid and hormone levels, low potassium, low blood cell counts, slow heart rate)

Dizziness

Fainting/syncope

Feeling cold all the time

Sleep problems

Menstrual irregularities-amenorrhea, irregular periods or only having a period while on hormonal contraceptives (this is not considered a "true" period)

Cuts and calluses across the top of finger joints (a result of inducing vomiting)

Dental problems, such as enamel erosion, cavities, and tooth sensitivity

Dry skin

Dry and brittle nails

Swelling around area of salivary glands

Fine hair on body (lanugo)

Thinning of hair on head, dry and brittle hair

Cavities, or discoloration of teeth, from vomiting

Muscle weakness

Yellow skin (in context of eating large amounts of carrots)

Cold, mottled hands and feet or swelling of feet

Poor wound healing

Impaired immune functioning

HEALTH CONSEQUENCES OF ANOREXIA NERVOSA

In anorexia nervosa's cycle of self-starvation, the body is denied the essential nutrients it needs to function normally. Thus, the body is forced to slow down all of its processes to conserve energy, resulting in serious medical consequences.

The body is generally resilient at coping with the stress of eating disordered behaviors, and laboratory tests can generally appear perfect even as someone is at high risk of death. Electrolyte imbalances can kill without warning; so can cardiac arrest. Therefore, it's incredibly important to understand the many ways that eating disorders affect the body.

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Anorexia nervosa is an eating disorder characterized by weight loss (or lack of appropriate weight gain in growing children); difficulties maintaining an appropriate body weight for height, age, and stature; and, in many individuals, distorted body image. People with anorexia generally restrict the number of calories and the types of food they eat.

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"Next week will be be better, I thought. Sometimes the flu lasts two weeks, but not three. Anyway, Elena's got school soon, and that'll get her out of bed. Maybe she's finally recharging. This could be good, right? After all, I'm the one who begged her to rest." (314 Dunkle

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Watch actress Troian Bellisario talk about her anorexia story and how it impacted her vote in this years election.

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Troian Bellisario shares how anorexia impacted her election views

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Actress Troian Bellisario speaks about overcoming anorexia and how it impacted her view on voting in the upcoming election

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Listen to the author Claire B Dunkle discuss her book "Hope and Other Luxuries".

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Author Clare B. Dunkle discusses HOPE AND OTHER LUXURIES on #ConversationsLIVE

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Host Cyrus Webb welcomes author Care B. Dunkle to #ConversationsLIVE to discuss her journey of writing and sharing with the world and what it's been like to see the response to her book HOPE AND OTHER LUXURIES.