What is Anorexia?

ANOREXIA
Anorexia nervosa is a disease that one percent of female adolescents in the United States have. Though most people that have anorexia are young women between ten and twenty years old, older and younger people have this disease, and a few men have this disease, but it is not as common. Ten percent of people with anorexia are men, the other ninety percent are women. Anorexia is a serious eating disorder in which a person refuses to eat enough food to maintain a minimum normal body weight. This person weighs eighty-five percent or less than the average weight of a person that age…