Anorexia Nervosa Each year millions of people in the United States are affected by serious and sometimes life-threatening eating disorders. The vast majority are adolescents and young adult women. Approximately one percent of adolescent girls develops anorexia nervosa, a dangerous condition in which they can literally starve themselves to death. The reasons for difficulties around the issues of food and eating are myriad and complex, and no single answer sufficiently explains the phenomenon of women …showed first 75 words of 3445 total…

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