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 …showed first 75 words of 1115 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1115 total…female student athletes that have eating disorders is cross-country. The sport that has the most male student athletes with eating disorders is wrestling. If you know anyone that has an eating disorder don't push them into doing anything, but they need to get help. You can tell their parents that they might have an eating disorder. An eating disorder is very serious, but if you don't handle it the right way, it could get worse.