Social pressure often makes people think that they have to look “perfect”. And being slim is often considered as the most important aspect of this perfection. As a result, people try very hard to lose weight. Some people do this the right way, by keeping a healthy diet and exercising regularly. Others, however, resort to [...]

Anorexia nervosa is an eating disorder characterized by a desperate search of thinness with a corresponding excessive fear of becoming fat that is explicit in the strenuous denial of food and weight control mania. This disorder affects mostly young Western women and is virtually unknown in countries where having a long-limbed figure is not considered [...]