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It seemed to me that the older I got, the more obsessed people seemed about their
bodies. Whether it was the diet soda boom of the 80's, or the fact everyone has always
been unhappy with his or her natural bodies; it just took me a while to comprehend. It always seemed like there were diets here, diets there; these drugs can do this, or
these herbs can do that… "Stop the insanity!" This paper is going to discuss anorexia nervosa, an alarming disease that is usually developed during puberty of both boys and girls. Like bulimia, in which the subject binges and then disposes of ingested food by purging or use of laxatives, those suffering anorexia nervosa have an obsession with the amount
of fat on her body (although one of every ten suffering this disease are male, I
will use the female pronoun since they are the majority). This results in the
loss of appetite completely and dangerous weight loss. More than thirty years
ago one of this century's major sex symbols sang, "Happy......

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