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Eating disorders. Preoccupation with body shape and weight is very common in many cultures. The desire to be slimmer and created a highly profitable diet industry in the western world, selling nutritional advice, exercise regimes and appetite-reducing drugs. Up to 90% of women have been on a diet at some time in their lives. The vast majority of dieters do not go on to develop the potentially dangerous relationship with food seen in eating disorders. However, it is perhaps not surprising that these disorders have primarily affected females. Doctors descriptions of patients with eating disorder were made as far back as the seventeenth century. Symptoms and diagnosis of anorexia nervosa. Anorexia usually develops over a period of time, often after dieting. The onset of symptoms can also follow a time of personal stress, such as being bullied at school. The term anorexia nervosa means loss of appetite for nervous reasons. However term is...

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