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Some Warning Signs of Anorexia Nervosa:
- Dramatic weight loss
- Preoccupation with weight, food, calories, progressing to restrictions against whole categories of food (i.e., no carbohydrates, etc.)
- Frequent comments about feeling "fat" or overweight despite weight loss
- Anxiety about gaining weight or being "fat"
- Denial of hunger
- Development of food rituals (i.e., eating goods in certain orders, excessive chewing, rearranging food on a plate.
- Consistent excuses about mealtimes or situations involving food.
- Excessive, rigid exercise regime- despite weather, fatigue, illness, or injury, the need to "burn off" calories taken in.
- Withdrawal from usual friends and activities
- In general, behaviors and attitudes indicating that weight loss, dieting, and control of food are becoming primary concerns
Facts about Anorexia Nervosa:
- Approximately 90-95% of anorexia nervosa sufferers are girls and women.
- Between 1-2% of American women suffer from anorexia nervosa
- Between 5-20% of individuals struggling with anorexia nervosa will die. The probabilities of death increase within that range depending on the length of the condition.
- Anorexia nervosa has one of the highest death rates of any mental health condition
- Anorexia nervosa typically appears in early to mid-adolescence.
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