Anorexia is an eating disorder that primarily affects females, with 0.5-3.7% of women experiencing it at some point in their lives. It is caused by factors like negative comments about weight from others that lower self-esteem, and sometimes begins with a history of underfeeding as an infant. Signs include weight loss, wearing loose clothes, skipping meals, hair loss, fatigue, and menstrual changes in women. Anorexia is difficult to diagnose initially as those suffering deny the problem, but medical issues eventually reveal it. Treatment involves supervised weight gain through feeding tubes, as well as psychological counseling to address underlying issues and change perceptions of body image. Anorexia has one of the highest mortality rates of

1. Anorexia
By:Nicole Diamond

2. Causes of deaths
• 95% of the time its females who suffer with Anorexia.
0.5%-3.7% of women will suffer from this disorder at
some point in their lives
• It doesnt matter what gender you are, but most of the time
it runs in mostly girls.

3. what causes Anorexia?
• There are alot ways that you become Anorexia. One way
is people could make fun of you by calling you fat and
that makes your self esstem go down and it makes people
unfortable. Sometimes its in their mind that there fat,
but they could be the skiniest people.
• There isnt a deffinate reason for Anorexia. Doctors are
still looking for a treatment for Anorexia.
• Sometimes it starts off as a feeding problem as a baby
and a history of undereating.

4. Signs & Symptoms of Anorexia?
• People start to loose weight uncontrollably and will tend
to wear more loose fitting clothes. They will skip meals
and eat little to no portions a day. Once they start
loosing lots of weight their hair will start to fall out,
they'll look very tired, and they become very depressed.
• After loosing a lot of weight women's menstrual cycle
will end. They can become constapaited and have gastro
problems. You're bones loose density as you get skinnier
and skinnier.

5. How to Diagnosis Anorexia
• When people have this disordered they tend to deny it
which makes it harder to diagnosis them at first. When
they start having medical problems is when they find out
they have this disorder. Usually are brought to clinics by
worried family members. The person will deny this
thinking they are perfectly fine.

6. How is Anorexia treated ?
• The paitient must be on a feeding tube and must gain 1-3
pounds a week to be on a safe rate to healthiness. Also,
they must attend psychological help in a mental-health-
center to gain back any confidence they lost, and to get
them to accept themselves and their bodies.
• There is no actual medication out there to help people
from starving themselves but theres a medicine called
olanzapine, which is a mood stablelizer.

7. Does Anorexia Kill ?
• Anorexia is one of the highest psychiatric conditions
with the death rate. People who die from this disease
usually have bad medical conditions from it and will end
up going into cardic arrest. Also, another reason why
Anoerxia kills is from suicide.
• The people with Anorexia who did't end up in death will
have to undergo lots of treatment so they don't relaspe.