Anorexia
Anorexia nervosa or anorexia often begins with a harmless-seeming dietary behavior, such as omitting sweets, a vegetarian diet or reducing the amount of food eaten. Sufferers try hard to control their eating behaviour and continue to lose weight. However, they experience themselves as too fat and live in constant fear of gaining weight or losing control over their eating behaviour. In anorexia, the body weight is so low that it can lead to physical danger or even life-threatening conditions.