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ANSWER KEY:
1. Answer: b.
While malnourishment, osteoporosis and liver disease could garner an anorexic an extended hospital stay, the most common reason that anorexics are hospitalized is heart damage.
2. Answer: c.
Anxiety problems often go hand-in-hand with anorexia (or other eating disorders).
3. Answer: a.
Anorexia is thought to affect less than 1 percent of the population. (There is a caveat to that, however, since many people are not properly diagnosed. Thus, the results may be slightly skewed.)
4. Answer: c.
About 90 percent of all anorexics are female.
5. Answer: b.
Anorexia has been diagnosed in girls …read more

1. What is the most common reason that anorexics are hospitalized?
a. malnourishment
b. heart damage
c. osteoporosis
d. liver disease
2. Which of the following is often a contributing factor to the development of anorexia?

a. memory problems
b. anger problems
c. anxiety problems
d. high cholesterol levels
3. What percentage of the population does anorexia affect?

a. less than 1 percent
b. 1-2 percent
c. 4.5 percent
d. 8 percent

Twenty years ago, it was 1988 and I was anorexic.  I had an verbally and physically abusive boyfriend who loved to tell me I was fat and ugly.  I had no support system whatsoever. 
And I dreaded Christmas.
I would spend hours plotting how my Christmas activities with my family would go, right down to how much I would allow myself to eat, how many times I would chew my food, how I would “load up” on ice water during the meal and the many ways I could make a plate of food “disappear” without eating more than a couple of bites.  …read more