Anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa are devastating, often life-threatening eating disorders that are on the rise worldwide. Modern culture too often portrays thinness with physical attractiveness, success and happiness, it's no wonder everyone of us subliminally equate being thin with being successful in life.

But on the road to achieving this delusive perfection, many have lost their lives through means of self-starvation and/or purging in an attempt to be thin, by that we mean skeletal thin.

Next, insights to anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa: the classic symptoms, tell-tale signs and the deathly dangers.


In extreme starvation mode, our body literally eats itself away. Muscle tissues become wasted and bones become weakened.