Thin is Good, but Thinner is Better Anorexia - one of the most common and unrecognised conditions among teenagers and young adults of the twenty first century. Victims starve themselves; afraid to eat anything for the sheer dread of becoming fat. Some exercise to extremes in a desperate effort to shed kilos. But why can't they simply go on a healthy diet when they reach their 'thin' status? Melissa Smith, once suffering from anorexia, explains …
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…last days; her younger sister, who also at that time was suffering from anorexia, had recently been diagnosed with a mental condition and, in a fit of raged envy and jealousy of Melissa's incredibly thin stature, strangled Melissa on her hospital bed. Hundreds of family and friends of anorexia victims gathered in Anorexia Park yesterday for a day or mourning for Melissa Smith and also to honour and remember other victims of this terrible condition.