Eating - Most people do not give this a second thought. It comes as naturally to most people as breathing. For others, however, eating is the source of a severe psychological disorder. This disorder is known as anorexia. According to Harvard's eating disorder center , one out of every one hundred young women between ten and twenty are starving themselves, 8 million people in the United States suffer from eating disorders , and without treatment the death rate …
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…nourishment is likely to get worse and worse until the patient receives treatment. As you can see anorexia is deadly disease with many causes and effects. Now that I have told you about the causes and effects of anorexia, both physical and psychological, I hope it has made you more knowledgeable of this deadly disorder. You never know when you will need this information to help a friend or loved one in fighting this disorder.