Glossary

__These are words you may not understand...__

 * __Anorexica__ - loss of appetite and inability to eat. **


 * __Anorexia Nervosa__ - an eating disorder primarily affecting adolescent girls and young woman, characterized by pathological fear of becoming fat, distorted body image, excessive dieting, and emaciation. **


 * __Emaciation__ - abnormal thinness caused by lack of nutrition or by disease. **

__**Body Mass Index**__ - **an** ** index for assessing overweight and underweight, obtained by dividing body weight in kilograms by height in meters squared: a measure of 25 or more is considered overweight, under a measure of 25 is considered underweight.**
 * //Abbreviation:// BMI **

** __Dehydration__ - an abnormal loss of ** **wat****er from ** **t****he body, especially from illness or physical exertion. **

__**Starvation**__ - ** the act or state of starving; condition of being starved.** =This is the definition and other words for the word 'Fashion Model'=


 * __Fashion Model__ - a woman who displays fashions -"she was to fat to be a mannequin" **

__**Fashion Model**__ - **figure, figurine, image, knock-off, layout,**  __This is all of our research we have found on Anorexic Models__
 * look-alike, miniature, painting, photograph, picture, pocket, **
 * spitting image. **

It is estimated that 4% of the world have anorexia and the truth is most people deny having it. The underlying reason of having anorexia is the person wants to maintain their current figure or lose weight fast. People need to realise that they do not need to starve themselves to reach their goal, it’s just simply eating the right special foods. The problem is there is too much rubbish on the internet and its difficult to find a decent diet that actually works. Hence this site was produced, to give people like you some good information as we know what you are going through in you mind and body. For people that don’t know the risks of starvation, here are some of them: - Dehydration - Kidney failure - Heart Failure - Your body become weak - Constipation - Affects to menstrual cycle (can actually stop it)

==Anorexia is considered to be a professional disease of many catwalk models. It leads to depression, weakness and to much more serious health problems. The amount of death cases caused by anorexia continues to grow.== A teenage model whose sister starved herself to death has also died of suspected anorexia. Eliana Ramos, 18, collapsed six months after her sister Luisel had a heart attack during a fashion show and triggered an international debate over the use of size zero models on the catwalks. Fashion bosses in Madrid and Milan have set a minimum [|body mass] index for girls appearing in their shows in an effort to discourage [|starvation] diets and eating disorders. But bosses at London Fashion Week - which is now in full swing - have refused to follow suit. Eliana's death will add to the pressure on the industry. The sisters' devastated family said Luisel, 20, had been told she could "make it big" if she lost a "significant" amount of weight and was "under much pressure and stress". It appears her sister followed in her footsteps after collapsing at the home she shared with her grandmother.

She was found dead in her bedroom in her Montevideo home in Uruguay on Tuesday. A police source said: "The primary diagnosis is death due to [|symptoms] of malnutrition." Her grandmother, who discovered her body, wept: "This has happened to me twice. The girl would not wake up. I went into the house and saw her eyes blank and her knees tucked up." Several months ago Eliana, who was 5ft 7in tall, weighed 8st 10lb and had a BMI just over the minimum 18 set by Madrid fashion bosses. But recently she had apparently been losing weight rapidly, although it was unclear whether she had been doing so deliberately to further her career. She was spotted by modelling scouts when she was 16 and became one of the leading girls on the books of major Argentine agency Dotto Models. Eliana's boss Pancho Dotto said of her death: "It is absurd that people are speaking about anorexia or bulimia in this tragic case. "She had never had problems with her diet. It is obvious the sisters' deaths must be due to a genetic problem." Eliana's death also comes three months after Brazilian [|model] Ana Carolina Reston, 21, died of anorexia on the eve of a [|Paris] photoshoot after existing on a diet of apples and tomatoes. A spokesman for the British Fashion Council, which organises London Fashion Week, said it was aware of Eliana's death but did not want to speculate on its cause. It insisted that regulation is neither "desirable nor enforceable". []

Teenage starvation: The Obsession with Anorexia Terry Yarber, a single overweight mother of a sixteen __ year old __ and two __ adolescents __, wipes away the salty tears from her pale face so that her daughter does not see the fear inside her. Weighing only ninety one pounds, strapped to a __ hospital __ bed with a tube down her throat is a girl named Sherie. Sherie thinks the thought of __ food is __ repulsive. For instance, she doesn't bother to count calories, carbohydrates, or watch out for bad fat or good fat. Sherie does not bother to eat at all. The most she has had to eat in the last three days are two baby carrots, one slice of low __ carbohydrate __ bread, and one leaf of lettuce. []