Anorexia and Bulimia Nervosa, medical terminology

Title: Anorexia and Bulimia Nervosa, medical terminology
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Anorexia and Bulimia Nervosa, medical terminology

" When she was fourteen, a modeling agency said that her face was two fat. It was a death sentence." (Toronto Sun, 1994)         Sheena Carpenter died in November 1993. She was found on the kitchen floor of her apartment by her mother. She was twenty-two years old. . . and weighed only fifty pounds. Sheena was just one of the alarming numbers of young women who become obsessed with the shape and size of their bodies, and suffer harmful, or …showed first 75 words of 2193 total…

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…showed last 75 words of 2193 total…where the patient has become critical the individual is often hospitalized and monitored around the clock with close observation on slow recovery of body chemical. The damages to the body can usually be restored in a relatively short time as compared to the emotional damage that goes on for years. Thankfully most of the physical problems with an eating disorder are caused by malnutrition and go back to normal when normal body weight is restored.

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