INTRODUCTION TO OUR TOPIC
Anorexia is a disease that usually affects teenagers and pre-teenagers, although there are also recorded cases of adults suffering from anorexia. While most of the victims are female, there are also cases of men who have starved themselves in a similar fashion.
In Singapore, out of 200 cases of anorexia, 24 of them were primary school students. Even children of ages 8-10 are affected.
Anorexia is not just "an excessive want to be skinny." It is far more serious than that. It is the deadliest mental disease there is. 5 – 10% of anorexics die within 10 years after contracting the disease; 18-20% of anorexics will be dead after 20 years and only 30 – 40% ever fully recover.
We have to start preventing it, and quickly.
Anorexia is a disease that usually affects teenagers and pre-teenagers, although there are also recorded cases of adults suffering from anorexia. While most of the victims are female, there are also cases of men who have starved themselves in a similar fashion.
In Singapore, out of 200 cases of anorexia, 24 of them were primary school students. Even children of ages 8-10 are affected.
Anorexia is not just "an excessive want to be skinny." It is far more serious than that. It is the deadliest mental disease there is. 5 – 10% of anorexics die within 10 years after contracting the disease; 18-20% of anorexics will be dead after 20 years and only 30 – 40% ever fully recover.
We have to start preventing it, and quickly.