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Anorexia
Anorexia nervosa is a life-threatening eating disorder defined by a refusal to maintain body weight within 15 percent of an individual's minimal normal weight. Other essential features of this disorder include a distorted body image, an intense fear of gaining weight, and amenorrhea (absence of at least three consecutive menstrual cycles when otherwise expected to occur) in teens. Sometimes adolescents and teens binge-purge and starve, depending on the extent of weight loss. This can be physically very dangerous!
