Anorexia nervosa

Anorexia nervosa is an eating disorder in which the individual obsessively seeks to lose weight by controlling what they eat, resulting in a reduction in the consumption of foods, and an excessive concern about nutrition in order to establish which foods are fattening and which are not.

 

The objective is to lose weight as quickly as possible, as the individual has a distorted perception of their body image. This also leads to the individual restricting what they eat, performing excessive physical exercise and taking laxatives and diuretics.