Loss of appetite or anorexia is often associated with cachexia, especially cachexia of malignancy.
Michelle has visited Web sites that promote anorexia, known as Ana, and bulimia, nicknamed Mia.
This damage may not be fully reversible, even when the anorexia is under control.
Government statistics suggest that between seven and 10% of youngsters suffer from anorexia or depression.
What was once seen as evidence of corporate fitness for the moment looks like anorexia.
Nearly 80 teenagers have received hospital treatment for conditions such as anorexia in the past five years.
After having helped my daughter fight her battle with anorexia, I feel for parents fighting the same battles.
In the same way that anorexia nervosa is not primarily about food, alcoholism is not primarily about alcohol.
The level of autoantibodies to melanocortins was positively correlated with anorexia, but it was inversely correlated with bulimia.
Helen, 17, from Puckeridge in Hertfordshire, spent five months in hospital with anorexia.
In addition to the host of physical complications, people with anorexia also commonly have other mental disorders as well.
Researchers found no cases of anorexia or self-starvation among the black women compared with 15 cases among the white women involved.
If a person with anorexia becomes severely malnourished, every organ in the body can be damaged, including the brain, heart and kidneys.
In 2007, Caro posed nude for a controversial Italian anti-anorexia campaign.
But first this question: Why do so many people still think affluent white girls are the only ones suffering from anorexia and bulimia?
Both anorexia and bulimia are known to go hand in glove with particular personality characteristics which are not directly related to the disease.
Coming to the States from Germany at age 18 in 1996, Mospan knew no one, got married, had kids--and lapsed into depression and anorexia.
During the next year, as a freshman in college, she began to publicly speak about her struggles with anorexia, hoping to destigmatize the illness.
In an era when pro-anorexia communities congregate on social media sites like Pinterest, it's no wonder that lawmakers are concerned with women's body image.
Anorexia is the third most common chronic condition among American adolescents.
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Some patients in the clinical trial suffered an increased heart rate and a condition called metabolic acidosis, which can lead to hyperventilation, fatigue and anorexia.
Acute (short-term) inhalation exposure to high levels of 1, 4-dioxane has caused vertigo, drowsiness, headache, anorexia and irritation of the eyes, nose, throat, and lungs in humans.
Walton, Florida, woman says she started on the path of anorexia and bulimia as a way of dealing with an assault she suffered six years ago.
"She used the topic of battling anorexia as a sincere commitment to help others struggling, and as a tool to solidify her own recovery, " Mammel said.
"We also know that anorexia and bulimia nervosa and related illnesses affect the lives of almost every one of us, either directly or indirectly, " she said.
And I think that black women have more to talk about more than just being obese and anorexia and bulimia and a whole lot of other things.
Yolanda Reid-Chassiakos, director of the student health center at California State University, Northridge, once saw a college student whose parents suspected she was suffering from anorexia nervosa.
But in the case of anorexia, bulimia and, possibly, obsessive-compulsive disorder, Dr Fetissov's work opens a new line of thinking about how these diseases might be treated.
Women with severe, life-threatening anorexia experienced dramatic improvement for the first time in their lives after a breakthrough deep brain stimulation (DBS) experiment published today in The Lancet.
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But some doctors are worried that harm will spill over to other patient groups, given the rampant off-label use of antipsychotics for treating ailments such as depression, Alzheimer's symptoms and anorexia.
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