okay so im writing a paper for health class on the disease anorexia nervosa and the point is to get in the shoes of an anorexic but i hv some questions.. if anyone could please answer them ??1.) how do you know if sumones anorexic or just skinny??2.) doesnt starving urself slow down ur metabolism? does that make u gain more weight??3.) woudnt the hunger pains be to much to handle?? how would they suppres them?/4.) how much weight do they lose in a week if they olny eat 500 calories or less per day?5.) even when they are really skinny do they see them selfs as fat or do they hv no self control?
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There was a girl on a television show called Growing Pains. Her name is Tracey Gold. She was a child actress and she started to get chunky. The producers told her she had to lose weight or she was going to get fired. She ended up becoming an anorexic. She also made a very good TV movie about a girl with anorexia, "For the Love of Nancy". She wrote an autobiography that you might find at the library.1: You really can't know.2: Yes, it does slow down the metabolism.3: No, the hunger pain becomes re-framed to become a positive and anorexics actually feel better hungry then they do full. Eating actually makes them feel bad or in pain. Sounds strange, but, that is about how it works.4: that depends on the person, their height weight, age and activity level. A person who needs 1500 calories a day and only receives 500 will lose 1000 calories a day. There are 4000 calories in a pound of fat.5: Yes, they often feel fat even when they are not sometimes because the stomach becomes distended slightly from starvation.
1) Anorexia is an eating disorder where people starve themselves. Anorexia usually begins in young people around the onset of puberty. Individuals suffering from anorexia have extreme weight loss. Weight loss is usually 15% below the person's normal body weight. People suffering from anorexia are very skinny but are convinced that they are overweight. Weight loss is obtained by many ways. Some of the common techniques used are excessive exercise, intake of laxatives and not eating. Anorexics have an intense fear of becoming fat. Their dieting habits develop from this fear. Anorexia mainly affects adolescent girls.People with anorexia continue to think they are overweight even after they become extremely thin, are very ill or near death. Often they will develop strange eating habits such as refusing to eat in front of other people. Sometimes the individuals will prepare big meals for others while refusing to eat any of it.The disorder is thought to be most common among people of higher socioeconomic classes and people involved in activities where thinness is especially looked upon, such as dancing, theater, and distance running. 2) Yes, starving yourself does slow down your metabolism, but these people don't eat enough to maintain their weight, let alone gain any.3) You only have hunger pains for the first day. After that, you get a euphoric "high". It's an accomplishment to go without food for anorexics.4) It depends on how much activity they are doing.5) Anorexia is a mental illness, really. They continue to see themselves as fat even though they are deathly skinny. It a form of body dismorophic disorder. When asked to draw themselves, these people usually draw themselves fat
Thank God I'm not anorexic, but I know someone who is.
By the way, there was this amazing documentary on HBO about this same issue (can't remember the name- sorry!) You might find great interest in it.1) It is hard to tell if someone is anorexic or just slim, but you can tell by their eating habits, and their previous weight.
so eating habits/ weight loss2) Starving yourself makes you lose metabolism, but when you are intaking close to nothing, there is nothing to metabolize.3) Hunger pains are horrible to watch, many people with anorexic suppress them by chewing gum, because it gives them the false sense that they are eating.4) no idea, sorry!5) Most people with eating disorders have mental issues as well, so they do not understand that they are not fat. Sometimes they see their weight as the only thing that they can control!
1) If their anorexic they over excersice and tend to not eat .2)Well anorexics just excercise more than they should so they lose weight more rapidly no matter their metabolism3)They probably take antaacids and painkillers4)probably 10-15 llbs a week5) When u look in the mirror u see ur reflection but when they look into the mirror they see the same thing you see but they look anorexic in real life.
1. anorexics have pale and greyish skin, and tangly hair that is very thin, extremely thin ones will have 'down' hair which is there to keep their bodies warm2. at the begining it can, but your body starts breaking tissues, and muscles and fat and you start losing weight 3. well, they just see themselves as like 3049790327842 pounds, so they dont think they deserve food, many have destroyed their relationship with food, seeing it as disgusting and gross, others will distract themselves4. that depends on the person.and how much they exercise and weigh. probably like 3 or 4 pounds, and if it was no food they could lose 5-7 pounds5. yea, most still see themselves as obese or fat even when they are skinny
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My ex wife was anorexic for a couple of decades. She said that when she was hungry, she 'pretended' that she wasn't. I can't understand that (I love food), but I believe her.
She masked it by complaining all the time about indigestion. Everything gave her indigestion except for rice cakes, and she would only eat about 6 of those a day. She also made herself vomit a lot, which irritated her esophagus, which gave her heartburn. Later the indigestion turned into gas pains. Everything gave her gas, even water. No medications worked, so she spent hours every day in various yoga postures trying to expel all the gas.
Starving yourself does slow down your metabolism, but it doesn't defeat such a poor diet.
There are objective standards to measure the difference between skinniness and anorexia. Also, you can see it when the anorexic is nude - something they usually avoid. My ex-wife got down to 75 lbs. At 5'2", she looked like a concentration camp victim.
Anorexia is serious enough to be classified as something of a psychosis. The delusion that "I'm too fat" survives in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary, such as looking in a mirror, the readings on a scale, and the agonized pleas of family and spouses.
As for weight loss on a weekly basis, this would vary from one individual to another, as taller people burn more calories than shorter people do.
Feminists like to blame it all on the media. My wife became anorexic in the absence of television and magazines - the only media we had was radio, and you can't get bombarded with images of overly skinny models by radio. It would be more fruitful to look at brain structure and brain function.
1) someone is anorexic if their weight decreases dramatically, if someone is skinny, then they've always been skinny. 2) straving yourself does slow metabolism, it does makes you gain weight but in a unhealthy way. like your body is "unbalanced". and anorexic would gain weigh except they dont eat anythign which is not possible for them to gain weigh due to their unhealthy metabolism. 3) hunger pain is hard to handle. but we can all stand it it if we wanted to. an average person's will can take the hunger pain. hunger pain will go away eventually, even without eating. 4) umm not sure, probably like 9 or 10 pounds?5) probably a self-esteem thing. friends or family might make them feel like their fat/ Media have skinny celebs
hope that helps!! i know somethings i said are hard to understand :P bare with me lol
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