There are more and more people who have anorexia these days. Most people regard it as a cultural syndrome. According to sociology discoveries from the 1970, there are plenty of commercials and information that convey that skinny is beautiful. With this situation, the rate of people getting anorexia is increasing.
The features of the anorexia patients are that too much care about their weight and their figure of body. These patientsalways keep their weight below the minimum average weight of their age and height. In the beginning they have a vavority of symptoms, such as thin and weak, pale, listless, hair loose, anemia, etc.
The most serious will cause heart and kidney disease damage and finally maycause death.People who get too much stress or some teenagers who stop eating to rebel against their parents are more likely to get anorexia.
Lately there is an eighteen-year-old girl who only 30kg got anorexia. She can not cnotrol what the food she eats. For one meal she can eat 8kg food. In one month she needs to spent one million dollars on eating. She needs to through eating to vent emotion. Doctors say patients need to combine drug and psychological treatment.
In this society we can not ignore disease of civilization, anorexia. We should encourage these patients to seek medical treatment as soon as possible to avoid getting serious illness. It is difficult to cure.
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