ANOREXIA – THE TRUTH REVEALED!

 

Around 5% of young girls in the UK are estimated to have anorexia nervosa. The Whiterussian team aims to improve on this percentage, by providing you, the reader, with invaluable information on anorexia.

 

Anorexia shares many features with bulimia. In anorexia - while binge eating is less likely - the obsessions with weight and shape, the exercising, and the use of vomiting and laxatives to reduce weight are often major elements.  And they work! 

 

This young lady, pictured above, is a size ten.  Ridiculous, isn’t it.  But check her out after she became anorexic. 

 

Here she is a size eight.  Look how beautiful she has become.

Other signs before a person looses a dramatic amount of body weight can include:

ability to exercise a phenomenal amount irregular or stopped menstrual cycle (ammenhorrea) - you don’t even have to take the pill!!!

 

 As well as becoming attractive the consequences of inadequate nutrition in the long-term can be:

• slowed heartbeat (like a jedi's),
• low blood pressure, and
• a drop in body temperature (helps the nipples stand out, and reduces smelly armpits).

But there are more benefits than just the physical. Many doctors believe that once a person's bodyweight has fallen below a certain level, they are no longer capable of making rational decisions.  This means that your boyfriend will be unable to hold you to any promises you make, you have now have a license for mood swings and any night you arrive home with a weirdo, you can blame it on the anorexia.

 

 Even our third world counterparts have copped onto the idea of anorexia, leaving us behind in a metaphorical stone-age. A study carried out in rural Africa found that the eating disorder may exist there and may not be a solely 'western' phenomenon.

 

Indeed, the theory that media images of thin models encourages anorexia among young girls may not be correct, suggest doctors. Women's magazines have been under attack for years, accused of promoting supposedly unrealistic body images of exceptionally thin models. Editor of Vogue, Alexandra Shulman, defended her publication's position.

 "All we are doing is showing images of women we regard as interesting or beautiful or fashionable.”

 

Beautiful, isn’t she?  Look how pleased your man will be with your new figure.

 

 It is important to realise that we as a nation are becoming fatter, and fatter.  Nobody likes a fat body.  But prevention often comes too late.  We must try to stamp out obesity in the childhood years.  Below is a picture of two children, destined to become obese. 

 

Nobody wants kids like these!

Anorexia needs your support, TODAY!