I wrote a research paper on anorexia nervosa to see the causes and effects this "disease" has on the human beings who have it. I started out with a simple proposal. To find out the effects anorxia has on people and why these people were anorexic. Then I had a hypothesis, which was, "I think the reason that people have anorexia is because they want people to like them and accept them."
After this I did my research, hence research paper. Here I found lots of information from nutrition facts to percentages all the way to the gruesome pictures. In this research, I also found things from a magazine that had polls that girls took saying if they thought that they were skinny or fat, what they liked about their bodies, what they didn't like, and what they really, really, really wanted to change. These things were:
After the research was my conclusion. What I concluded from the research was that there is no real reason people have anorexia because it is not fully proven yet. There are many hypotheses about the causes that are just like mine. Many scientists have done research to target this main cause which I think is mainly a nerve in the brain that causes these "victims" to think that they should constantly get thinner, even though they are at the point of starvation. In the mirrors that they look into, they are large and fat even though their bones are sticking out of their bodies from all angles. I know that I have not found the cause of anorexia but it would be nice if one day I could.
Of course there are the side effects of anorexia, which were:
Things I have found about anorexia have come from other countries other than America. I had found that even people in Iraq and Arabia have fallen to think that they are not skinny enough.
There is no precise cure for anorexia except going into a rehabilitation center for people with anorexia.