ANOREXIA NERVOSA
It's fashion week and models are strutting down the catwalk, dressed in clothing with prices that are enough to buy a house. Sure the clothes certainly are eye-catching but the body of the models is attention-grabbing. They are stick-thin, I mean, the kind of thin that is painful to look at, yet this is a prevalent problem in the fashion industry; Anorexia Nervosa. Even Twiggy looks better than these models. Anorexia Nervosa is a "charming" mental disorder that causes its victims to stop eating or eat very little amounts of food in order to lose weight or to stop weight gain. Plus, this mental disorder shows itself in the form of an eating disorder and over 16 million people worldwide have these disorder, with a lot of health problems like infertility, dental damage, hair loss, organ damage and in extreme cases; death, usually caused by organ failure and heart attacks. (Anorexia Nervosa has the highest mortality rate of all mental disorders). In the fashion world, a...