Treatment for anorexia Treatment for anorexia Anorexia nervosa is a devestating and potentially deadly disorder. An estimated 7 million American women suffer from eating disorders. It is on the rise among teenage girls. This number is disturbing.
Society is partly to blame.
It portrays beauty as being only skin deep and skin and bones. People with anorexia nervosa are obsessed with thinness. They literally starve themselves to achieve that goal. They are also extremely conscious of calorie and fat content in food. They will not eat anything with fat in it.