Anorexia Nervosa

Canetti Anna Α2

E4 English Class, Senior High School 2009-2010Ms Befa

• Anorexia nervosa is an eating disorder characterized by extremely lowbody weight, distorted body image and an obsessive fear of gaining weight.

• The term anorexia nervosa was established in 1873 by Sir William Gull, one of Queen's Victoria's personal physicians. The term is of Greek origin: a (α, prefix of negation), n (ν, link between two vowels) and orexis (όρεξη, appetite), thus meaning a lack of desire to eat.

Anorexia Nervosa on the catwalk!

• Same people claim that to be a model you have to know how to walk correctly, be beautiful, have self confidence and of course be skinny like under 45 kilos.

• For many young girls it is a life dream to be like Zizel or Naomi: Beautiful, famous, rich, happy.

• In England 50% of girls in ages 16 to 21 would like to change their appearance through surgery to have a better body.

• 33% would like to be skinnier.• 15% are ready to have plastic surgery.• 72% would like to change their teeth. • 5% are ready to have a botox.

• Dr. Kerry Brain, scientist in the university of Manchester said ironically: “If your bones do not throw, then you can’t be a model!”. “ For most teens it’s very important to have a standard and to be compared with it. However we need to change skinny and stupid models with that of clever and healthy ones.”