Anorexia nervosa is a psychiatric diagnosis that describes an eating disorder characterized by low body weight and body image distortion with an obsessive fear of gaining weight. Individuals with anorexia often control body weight by voluntary starvation, purging, vomiting, excessive exercise, or other weight control measures, such as diet pills or diuretic drugs. It primarily affects adolescent females, however approximately 10% of people with the diagnosis are male. Anorexia nervosa is a complex condition, involving psychological, neurobiological, and sociological components.
Celebrity with this kind of disease:
1. Gilda Radner
- Birth Place: Detroit, MI
- Date of Birth / Zodiac Sign: June 28, 1946, Cancer
- Date of Death: May 20, 1989
- Profession: Actor; comedian; writer
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