Anorexia Nervosa

This is a picture of Mary-Kate Olsen. She was diagnosed with Anorexia Nervosa a few years ago, and it made headline news (what a sad, sad world we live in). Many hollywood stars are becoming role models for young people today. They are shown as very thin, which has led to teens across the country struggling to find the perfect body. This has led to many cases of anorexia nervosa, as teenagers try dieting and various other methods to try to reduce their weight. When they get this, they constantly think they are overweight, leading to a vicious cycle of weight-loss, where therapy becomes a necessity.

Anorexia Nervosa - An eating disorder in which a normal-weight person (usually an adolescent female) diets and becomes significantly (15% or more) underweight, yet, still feeling fat, continues to starve.