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2.  Anorexia affects people of all ages with an obsession of being thin  It can damage your health and even threaten your life

3.  No official main cause  Negative body image  They think losing weight will fix everything  Social and emotional stresses  General low self-esteem  Participation in an activity that demands slenderness  Perfectionism  Family criticizing body image

4.  Constant Dieting  Fear of gaining weight  Hiding their eating habits  Denial of weight loss  Using diet pills  Compulsive exercising  Engaging in harmful activities such as smoking and excessive caffeine consumption to counteract dizziness

5.  Dramatic weight loss  Strange food rituals  Dehydration  Dizziness and fainting  Hair loss/Dry hair  Refusal to eat  Denial of hunger  Depression  Withdrawn from social life

6.  There are no proven medications  Eating healthy  Therapy  Eliminating causing thoughts

7.  Be a role model  Don’t force them to eat  Don’t threaten or scare them  Be supportive  Encourage them to get treatment  Restore confidence in a person’s weight

8.  Anorexia has one of the highest death rates out of any mental condition (15-20% will die)  It is found typically in teens  90-95% or sufferers are women  Between 0.5 and 1% of American women suffer anorexia  It is one of the most common psychiatric diagnoses in young women