Does eating give you pleasure, or make you anxious?
Friday, May 20, 2011 - 12:30
in Psychology & Sociology
While most people have a great deal of difficulty in dieting and losing weight, particularly if a diet extends over many months or years, individuals with anorexia nervosa can literally diet themselves to death. In fact, this disorder has a very high death rate from starvation. A new study sheds light on why these symptoms occur in anorexia nervosa.