What Is Anorexia?

Anorexia nervosa is an eating disorder that most commonly affects teenage girls and young women. However, it can also occur in adults, both male and female. People with anorexia nervosa are extremely conscious and obsessive about their weight. Read More...

Types Of Anorexia?

There are two different types of Anorexia that people suffer from; the first is restricting anorexia and the second, binge eating/purging anorexia. The underlying characteristics for both types are basically the same; with both types of anorexia the sufferer will have a total fear of weight gain. Read More...

Anorexia & Teens

Gradually over a period of perhaps weeks or months you have seen a change in your child, at first it was hardly noticeably perhaps a change in there mood or there habits were the first sign that something was amiss. The change probably didn't give you cause to worry too much, being a teenage girl isn't the easiest of times for either the child or the family. Read More...

Anorexia Treatment

There are several different treatment options available for the anorexic, the most important and first step on the road to recovering from anorexia is the moment the sufferer admits they do in fact have a problem. This is the hardest and most crucial one but one that's necessary on order to make any progress towards establishing regular and "normal" eating habits. Read More...

Anorexia Vs Bulimia

Anorexia and Bulimia are equal opportunity eating disorders. There is no certain race, gender, sexual or religious background in which these eating disorders are more predominant. Anorexia and Bulimia are psychological problems that just happen to deal with food. There are some similarities in the two eating disorders, but they are not necessarily two sides of the same nervosa coin. Read More...

Battling Bulimia

Bulimia is widely thought of as some type of obsession with food. However, food really has nothing to do with the root of the problems that can trigger bulimia. Read More...