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Are you too concerned about your weight? Do you try everything you can just to make yourself look better? It is not a bad thing to lose weight moderately but you have to be aware of the risk of anorexia. Individuals with anorexia have a tendency to control weight recklessly by means of throwing up, intensive exercise or intended starvation. All of them eventually will lead to weight loss desired by the patients and at the time, loss of appetite, too. However, once they are skinny, the patients may still be on a diet or exercise frantically because they feel that they are not slim enough. As a result, in the most severe cases, anorexia can lead to death because of heart failure or other problems. The most difficult part of the treatment is that sufferers do not want to admit that they have problems; so, they do not want a cure. Therefore, people with eating disorder problems should not hesitate to seek medical help. With professional counseling and nutritional supports, most patients are able to learn to deal with their fear of eating and go back to their normal eating habits.