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What is anorexia nervosa? Anorexia nervosa is a serious, chronic, and potentially life-threatening eating disorder defined by a refusal to maintain minimal body weight within 15 percent of an individual’s normal weight. Other essential features of this disorder include an intense fear of gaining weight, a distorted body... 

Anorexia is a mental health disorder. The main symptoms include  preoccupation with dieting and thinness that leads to excessive weight loss; nevertheless, it is vital to remember that these are merely the symptoms. Anorexia and other eating disorders are rarely actually about food. More often they are about fearing abandonment,...