Anorexia Nervosa Nutritional Needs

Anorexia Nervosa Nutritional Needs

Anorexia nervosa (AN) is a frequent and complex intractable illness, which has an unknown etiology that is habitually disabling and chronic. It has the characteristics of aberrant behaviors of feeding, an extreme pursuit of emaciation and thinness as well as distortions of body image. Notably, the onset of AN tends to happen in females in the adolescent period and about 0.7 percent of this group can be affected, whereas the present lifetime estimate prevalence of AN is 0.3 percent. There are two subtypes of eating-associated AN behaviors. The first type is the restricting-type anorexics (R-AN) whereby the victim loses weight purely through exercising and dieting with bing purging or eating. The second type is the binge-eating or purging-type…