| It can be called the 'Barbie-doll syndrome' but a smart | | | | which perceives wrongly and pushes a person to |
| phrase is not enough to take the sting out of this | | | | extremities, it is not uncommon to find people |
| eating disorder that is growing alarmingly. Anorexia | | | | advocating quixotic reasons so as not to eat. Some |
| Nervosa has surpassed the curiosity element of an | | | | have developed an aversion with eating in a group; |
| off-beat disease. Now, it poses dangerous threat. | | | | some have taken recourse to the alibi of some fancy |
| The disease mainly involves people starving | | | | diet, so that they can carry on with their idiosyncrasies. |
| themselves. It starts with the victim feeling that she or | | | | The general tendency is to use laxatives heavily. |
| he is overweight while the truth is exactly opposite. | | | | Professional dancers, actors and long distance runners |
| They start adopting measures to be thin. In the | | | | have a tendency to fall a prey to anorexia nervosa as |
| process, they harm themselves. | | | | their profession necessitates a certain amount of |
| Anorexia is a disease that affects youngsters, mainly. | | | | thinness. As referred earlier, people belonging to the |
| The females are more susceptible to this vicious | | | | elite class of society, also have a propensity for |
| threat. However, middle-aged victims are not rare to | | | | developing this disease. In fact, the phrase 'Barbie-doll |
| find. The general trend, as far as the onset of disease | | | | syndrome' evolved from a number of celebrity victims, |
| is concerned has been found out to be the beginning | | | | all vying to be thin. |
| of puberty. | | | | A patient needs a lot of understanding and care. A |
| The disease is threatening, primarily due to two | | | | support-group of friends and family, come in handy |
| reasons. First of all, it affects the young generation. | | | | while treatment is on. Anger, denial and mood-swings |
| The second one is a little more complex. The elite | | | | are common and an eating-disorder expert can |
| classes and the so called 'jet-setting' citizens of the | | | | always solve the problem, if his or her advice is |
| world, both, propagate and give in to this madness to | | | | well-heeded. |
| be thin. Beauty pageants and the glamour world | | | | Shrunken bones, mineral loss and low body |
| worship the svelte look. Consequently, society also | | | | temperature, irregular heartbeat, permanent failure of |
| develops an interest in being thin which in this case has | | | | normal growth, development of osteoporosis and |
| reached an unhealthy height. | | | | bulimia are some of the common medical ailments that |
| The difficulty with anorexia is that the victims continue | | | | are triggered off by anorexia. The good news is that it |
| to believe that they are overweight, even when they | | | | is curable. Proper medical care and a great support |
| are thin to the point of being fatal. As it is the mind | | | | group would do the trick. |