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Gender differences in anorexics
---The adolescents












Gender differences in anorexics
---The adolescents

Do you think you’re fat? Do you deliberately starve yourself to lose weight? Do you have a fear of gaining weight? Do you refuse to eat when you are hungry? Do you exercise excessively? If you answered yes to three of these questions, you are at a high risk to get anorexia.
Twenty years ago, the University of Wisconsin Hospital typically admitted one anorectic a year; in 1982 over seventy cases were admitted to the same institution. A retrospective of incidence rates in Monanorexia nervosa doubled between 1960 and 1970. In terms of the general population, however, anorexia nervosa is still a relative infrequent disease: the annual incidence of the disorder has never been estimated at more than 1.6 per 100,000 population. Still, among adolescent girls and young women there is an increasing and disturbing amount of anorexia......

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