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Scientists at the Heidelberg University Hospital have recently announced that they have discovered a series of brain mechanisms that makes it difficult for women suffering from anorexia to quit their destructive habit, and return to living a normal life. Usually characterized as a psychiatric illness in which sufferers have poor image perception of their own bodies and distorted eating habits, anorexia nervosa is very dangerous, and can lead to death in some instances. The new research sheds some light on the causes of this terrible disease. According to medical statistics, more than ten percent of diagnosed anorexia nervosa patients die of the disease worldwide. In 20 to 30 percent of the cases, the illness goes chronic. Treating it is very difficult, doctors say, especially if the patient has been brought in late in the developmental stages of the condition. The situation is made worse by the fact that a large percentage of women, and even teenage girls around the globe v!
oluntarily start depriving themselves of food, in an attempt to fit society's rigorous and essentially misplaced beauty standards. Slipping into anorexia is fairly easy thereon.In the paper, conducted by scientists from the HUH Department of Psychosomatic and General Internal Medicine and the Heidelberg Univers...
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