If you feel you or your friends are on that destructive slope, try to get help as soon as you can. So here are some facts. Teens with anorexia nervosa are terrified of being fat. Anorexia Nervosa Teens with anorexia nervosa are terrified of being fat. It's an irrational fear.
Anorexics think they are fat even when their rib bones stick out.
A teen with anorexia denies her hunger and lies about what she eats, but she is preoccupied with food and calories full-time. Her lunch may be half a carton of low-fat yogurt, or half a cucumber cut in an exact number of slices. Three corn flakes, carefully counted out. One percent of adolescent girls between the ages of 10 and 20 starve themselves. Four times as many college students become anorexic.