Anorexia nervosa and Bulimia are chronic problems in which there is a preoccupation with food, eating and weight loss. Eating disorders are a very dangerous type of illness no matter who you are.
Men also get eating disorders.
More and more young men are coming forward and admitting their obsessions with their weight and food, one of them wrote to us, he wanted to share his situation with others, his story will appear at the end of this article soon. Anorexia nervosa was first described in scientific literature over a hundred years ago in England. Descriptions of self-starvation have even been found in medieval writings. Anorexia is not a new syndrome that the media has created, but has certainly influenced. In the case of anorexia the hunger pains are denied.