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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... 

Eating disorders are psychologically based disorders in which the fear of fat becomes overwhelming and begins to cause clinically significant distress in social or occupational functioning. Although these are the symptoms, it is merely the surface of a much larger underlying problem involving self-esteem, depression and a problematic...