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Those children facing anorexia have higher chances of suffering from impaired bone development when they reach adolescent.
This was the result of a recent research which also uncovered that children and teenagers with even mild cases of anorexia exhibit abnormal bone structure.
Anorexia is an eating disorder characterized by emaciation, distorted body image and intense fear of gaining weight.
Miriam A. Bredella, M.D., musculoskeletal radiologist at Massachusetts General Hospital and assistant professor of radiology at Harvard Medical School in Boston said Adolescence is the most critical period for growth of bone mass, and the onset of anorexia interferes with that process, impairment of bone development may permanently alter bone structure and increase the risk of fractures and osteoporosis in adult life.
Bredella revealed people with the disorder are obsessed with weight control and often perceive themselves as overweight, even when they are dangerously thin.

Recent studies have shown that anorexia could affect adolescent bone development.

She said the disorder primarily occurs among young women and affects one in 100 adolescent girls.
The medical expert added among the many health problems associated with anorexia is bone loss.
To get the data, Bredella and her team used high-resolution, flat-panel volume computed tomography (CT) and DXA to study 10 adolescent girls, age 13 to 18, with mild anorexia and 10 age-matched girls without the disorder.
The new, high-resolution CT exam allowed the researchers to identify differences in bone structure between the patients with anorexia and the healthy controls, whereas bone mineral density measurements obtained using DXA did not.
The researchers said the results showed that while there was not a significant difference in bone mineral density between the anorexic patients and the healthy control group, there were significant structural differences, indicating that changes in bone structure begin to occur in anorexic patients well before decreases in bone density.
Moreover, the researchers claimed their data suggest that reassuring values of bone mineral density obtained using DXA may not reflect the true status of bone structure in this undernourished population.
Bredella said that in patients with anorexia, bone structure should be analyzed to detect abnormal bone health.

Anorexia patients around the world can find cure and pleasure at the same time by eating milkshakes.
Yes, you heard it right according to a medical study milkshakes offers treatment to persons suffering from anorexia nervosa.
Anorexia nervosa is defined as a disorder characterized by extreme low body weight and body image distortion with an obsessive fear of gaining weight.
The condition largely affects adolescent females, who make up more than 40 percent of all cases. As much as 3 percent of American girls and women are anorexic.
Contributing causes may include genetics, personality type, hormones, stress and societal pressures.
Based on research persons especially teenagers suffering from anorexia can best be treated with their ailment if they are fed with milkshakes and other high-calorie meals like macaroni and cheese until they regain a healthy weight.
The type of treatment that uses milkshakes and other high-calorie meals as cure for anorexia is known as Behavioural Family Therapy allows parents to feed these types of foods to teenagers suffering from this type of medical condition.

Anorexia patients around the world can now find cure from their medical condition by drinking milkshakes.

The treatment also known as Maudsley Approach was named after a hospital in London is an effective cure to anorexia nervosa among teens since it was first tried in the 1980s.
Behavioural Family Therapy offers best cure to anorexia nervosa since both the patient and his or her parents are joining hands to bring cure to their medical condition.
What makes Behavioural Family Therapy a proven and popular cure for anorexia is the fact that it offers effective cure and at the same time good opportunity for bonding moment for parents and their children.
Previous research has shown the Maudsley Approach successfully prevented hospitalization and helped adolescents recover their normal weights, with at least 75 percent of patients maintaining their recovery after five years.
Indeed this medical news is great news to all anorexia patients around the globe since it shows that milkshakes is more than a milk drink but also a medicine as well.

A big number of teen women most of whom from Asia are suffering from anorexia because of the so-called global fashion trend.
Anorexia nervosa is a psychiatric illness that describes an eating disorder characterized by extremely low body weight and body image distortion with an obsessive fear of gaining weight.
Individuals with anorexia are known to control body weight commonly through the means of voluntary starvation, purging, excessive exercise or other weight control measures such as diet pills or diuretic drugs.
While the condition primarily affects adolescent females, approximately 10% of people with the diagnosis are male.
 Anorexia nervosa, involving neurobiological, psychological, and sociological components is a complex condition that can lead to death in severe cases.
Based on studies conducted by medical experts they found out that many women around the world have starved themselves just for them to be slim and sexy and live in accordance to global fashion trend that being sexy and thin is the definition of being beautiful.
The study showed that a significant number of teenagers most of whom in Asia are inflicted with this eating disorder not because of lack of money to buy food but due to their  refusal to eat to keep themselves thin like their global fashion idols.
Recent data from Japan revealed that one in every 100 young women suffer from anorexia because of their intense desire to be slim even to the point of putting their life in danger just to follow the current trend.

The global fashion trend of being sexy and thin has been cited as one of the main causes why many teen women are suffering from anorexia worldwide.

Experts said the media could be partly blamed to the rise of anorexia among women since it had displayed that the definition of real beauty is being sexy and slim.
Another interesting findings in the study is the fact that most teen women who suffer from anorexia belong to the rich and not necessarily poor sectors of the society
It was revealed that these teens have the money to buy food to boost their body but they refuse to eat just to make themselves slim and thin.
The study was also able to discover that teens who have normal weights consider themselves as ugly since they do not fit in the appearance of their sexy and thin global fashion idols.
To keep in touch with the weight of their fashion idols, a number of teens around the world engage in unhealthy diet just to be slim and trendy.
It is time to put a stop to the continuing rise of anorexia among women by doing effort to educate the teens worldwide that being beautiful is not necessarily being sexy and slim.
The real definition of beauty is not on the outward appearance but the inside character of a person.