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ANOREXIA NERVOSA Its normal for human to feel like they still need something to add on their body.

Some wants to put on a weight, some wants to get rid of the fats in their body. Their main attention is to change their appearance. As for anorexia nervosa, their will and their mindset is not to eat too much. Anorexia is an eating disorder with three particular key features. The first one is, refusal to maintain a healthy body weight. An anorexic person is obsessed with food. Not that they obsessed to eat, but to overly control their food intake and weight. Sometimes an anorexic person will read the nutrition information of the food that they will eat, and if they found out that there are an amount of fats and proteins in the food are, they will be scared to eat it. They will also automatically remember every nutrients and what are the effects if someone eat it too much. This obsession towards food makes them think that being healthy and eating healthy food will make them grow fats, is the major reason causing them to refuse to maintain a healthy body weight. Next, the second key features of anorexia is intense fear of gaining weight. An anorexic person is so afraid to gain weight. A teenage anorexics weight is about 25 to 30 kilogram. So, if they put on 1 kilogram, they will be so afraid that their body will become bigger. An anorexic person will sometimes do whatever it takes to hide their food so they dont have to eat it. They are so afraid to gain weight, sometimes they will exercise after they have their meals. The next key features is distorted body image. An anorexic persons body is so similar to a skeleton. All the bones shape are visible. They have a very little amount of fats in their body. Anorexia Nervosa affects female far more often than male and most common in adolescent females. An anorexic men are more likely to also have other psychological problems. While women will tend to be a perfectionist and more displeased with their body shape. There a two types of Anorexia Nervosa. The first one is restricting anorexia. This is where an anorexic person will force themselves to lose weight by restricting calories. For example, drastic diets, fasting, and exercising. They will do all this stuff to lose

weight. The second type of anorexia is the purging type. In this type of anorexia, weight loss is achieved by vomiting or using laxatives and diuretics. An anorexic person will vomit everything that they ate. This is due to the fear of gaining weight. Some of the cause to anorexia is that people with anorexia are often perfectionists and overachievers. They focus in everything that they do. An anorexic person are very disciplined towards everything that they do and want to achieve. So, if they say they dont want to gain any weight and want their body to be more thin, t hey will do it. And they will do it perfectly. Because if theyre not perfect, they will think that they are a total failure. Next, is family and social pressures. Sometimes there are certain families that wants their children to participates in an activity that demands slenderness, such as ballet, gymnastic and modelling. This contributes a sort of will and mindset to the their children that they shouldnt eat too much and they are in need to lose weight. Besides that, there are some families that overly controlling their children. They put a lot of emphasis on look, diet themselves, or criticize their shildrens bodies and appearance. This makes their childrens confidents low thus, forcing them to change and please the society. Lastly, some research shows that anorexia may run in family genetics. research suggest that, if a girl has a sibling with anorexia, she is 10 to 20 times more likely to develop anorexia herself. As a conclusion, the cause of anorexia has not been definitively established, but selfesteem and body-image issues, societal pressures, and genetic factors likely each play a role. So, we should be grateful that God give us the desire to eat. We should eat. But remember to eat healthily.

ATHIRAH IZZATI BINTI ROSLY PISMP MZ1113

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