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Anorexia and bulimia are eating disorders that affect millions of people every year all over the world. These two types of eating disorders can be caused by stress, peer pressure, the media and negative body image resulting in severe health problems or even death. These disorders are thought to be caused by women trying to fulfill a cultural image of being thin because they feel, to be accepted, you must look like everyone else. Men also suffer from these problems, although not to the same degree as women.
Thousands of men and women see themselves as fat when the rest of the world sees them as mere skeletons dwindling away to almost nothing. This debilitating illness is called anorexia nervosa, an eating disorder characterized by low body weight and body image distortion with an obsessive fear of gaining weight or getting fat. “Anorexia is an addiction, and like most addicts, people with anorexia tend to deny they have a problem.” They see themselves as healthy individuals......

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