Anorexia Nervosa is a very serious eating disorder which can be potentially life threatening. It's main characteristic is self starvation and excessive weight loss.
Anorexia Nervosa has four main symptoms and they are as follows:

1. A strong resistance to maintaining a person's body weight at or above what would be considered a normal minimum body weight for that person's age, weight and height.

2. A very strong and intense fear of getting fat or being overweight even though to all appearances the person is at a normal or even below normal weight.

3. A strong disturbance by the shape of the person's body. An obsession with achieving a certain look that, though to all normal appearances, is thin and frail, to the person suffering from this disease looks perfectly normal.

4. A sudden loss of the menstrual cycle in women who are past the age of puberty and in girls who have yet to reach puberty, the cycle never begins.

It is important that to have the best chance of successfully treating a person with Anorexia Nervosa that the disease be diagnosed early and treatment begin immediately.

There are many warning signs that someone is suffering from this disease. They are as follows:

a. A sudden and dramatic loss of weight in a very short period of time.

b. An obsession with counting calories, grams, fat content and a number of other things associated with the food the person eats, reaching the point where they keep daily

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