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Anorexia nervosa is characterized by an irrational fear of becoming fat coupled with a relentless pursuit of thinness. People with anorexia go to extremes to reach and maintain a dangerously low body weight. But no matter how much weight is lost, no matter how emaciated they become, it’s never enough. The more the scale dips, the more obsessed they become with food, dieting, and weight loss.

The key features of anorexia nervosa are:

• Refusal to sustain a minimally normal body weight. 
• Intense fear of gaining weight, despite being underweight.
• Distorted view of one’s body or weight, or denial of the dangers of one’s low weight.

Causes :

• Dissatisfaction with own body 
• Dieting 
• Low self-esteem 
• Obsession with perfectionism 
• Childhood sexual abuse 
• Family history of eating disorders 
• Genetics
• Individual personality traits 
• Family environment 
• Participation in activities like ballet, gymnastics etc

Symptoms :

• Dieting despite being thin 
• Obsession with calories, fat grams, and nutrition 
• Pretending to eat or lying about eating Preoccupation with food 
• Strange or secretive food rituals 
• Loss of menstrual periods 
• Lack of energy and weakness 
• Feeling cold all the time 
• Dry, yellowish skin 
• Constipation and abdominal pain 
• Infertility 
• Stunted growth 
• Osteoporosis 
• Heart problems 
• Kidney failure 
• Depression
• Dramatic weight loss 
• Feeling fat, despite being underweight 
• Fixation with body image 
• Harshly critical of own appearance 
• Denies being too thin 
• Using diet pills, laxatives, or diuretics 
• Throwing up after eating 
• Compulsive exercising 
• Restlessness and insomnia 
• Dizziness, fainting, and headaches 
• Growth of fine hair all over the body and face 
• Severe mood swings 
• Thoughts of suicide 
• Tooth and gum decay

Foods to Avoid :

• Alcohol 
• Caffeine 
• Tobacco
• Refined sugars, such as candies
• Soft drinks

Foods to Eat :

• Avocados 
• Bananas 
• Brown rice 
• Herring 
• High carbohydrate foods 
• High fat foods 
• High protein foods 
• Legumes 
• Miso soup 
• Nut butters
• Oat cakes 
• Pulses 
• Pumpkin seeds 
• Quinoa 
• Sesame seeds 
• Smoothies 
• Sunflower seeds 
• Watercress 
• Wheat germ

Remedies :

1. Eating crushed ginger a few minutes before meals will increase appetite.
2. Drinking mint juice with rock salt also helps to increase hunger. 
3. Mixing rock salt, ½ a tsp carom seeds powder (ajwain powder) and lime juice (sweet) does increase hunger.
4. To increase appetite and hunger, mix lime juice and honey with lukewarm water and drink it daily.
5. Chewing ½ a tsp of ajwain seeds twice daily also increases appetite.
6. Eating a tsp of mustard powder with water also helps.
7. Eating pineapple with pepper powder and rock salt also helps a lot.
8. Sprinkle a little rock salt over ½ a lime and the suck the juice a little before meals.
9. Taking ¼ tsp asafoetida with ½ tsp ghee also increases appetite.
10. Mix onion juice with asafoetida and salt and then drink it. 
11. Let the finely chopped garlic crackle in oil and then eat it; or make a paste of it and have it with your meals.
12. Boil 4-5 dry mangosteen in 1 cup water and drink this water with ghee.