Anorexic BMI Calculator
Anorexia nervosa is a psychiatric diagnosis that describes an eating disorder, characterized by 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. Anorexia primarily affects adolescent females (age of 16-26), approximately 10% of people with the diagnosis are male.
BMI less than 17.5 in adults or 85% of expected weight in children is one of the common physical features for Anorexia.
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Low BMI or body weight is just one physical feature for Anorexia. Not all Low BMI or body weight is related to Anorexia. More information about Anorexia is available at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anorexic
Reference
1. CDC weight chart for boy between age 2 and 202. CDC weight chart for girl between age 2 and 20