Eating Disorders: Anorexia
Each year millions of people in the United States are affected by serious and sometimes life-threatening eating
disorders. The vast majority are adolescents and young adult women. Approximately one percent of adolescents
girls develop anorexia nervosa, a dangerous condition in which they can literally starve themselves to death.
Another two to three percent develop bulimia nervosa, a destructive pattern of excessive overeating followed by
vomiting or other ' purging ' behaviors to control their weight. These eating disorders also occur in men and older
women…
