What is a pro-ana?
Pro-ana is an attitude or movement supporting anorexia, especially through online communities. The purpose of this website is to support extreme eating, exercise, thinness and other attitudes and behavior associated with anorexia. Although the movement exists, mental health experts have still classified anorexia as a harmful and sometimes deadly eating disorder and continues to support this claim. These experts often try to face movements by closing the Pro-Ana website, despite how difficult it is to do so. The behavior and results that characterize anorexia are highly evaluated as such as strictly limiting caloric intake, having extremely low body weight and excessive exercise. The advocates usually consider the thinness to the point where the skin and bones are, but no body fat, visible as their desired shape. Often rejects the opinion of the medical facility that anorexia is unhealthy, sometimes claims to be obese or even a healthy weight is embodiedImage damage to the body. Anorectics is isolated from others for criticism and requirements for maintaining anorexia, but at the end of the 90s.
The creators and participants of the Pro-AA website usually support anorectic behavior and insist that extreme thinness is healthy or ideal. The jargon may be prevalent on this site; For example, besides "Ana" and "pro-ana", which refer to anorexia or its promotion, images of stray individuals can be labeled as "Thinspiration" with the intention to inspire anorectics to achieve the level of displayed thinness. Since the age of 90, many websites have been designed to look less obvious or provide limited access due to criticism of those who state that anorexia of jinging the lifestyle but illness.
Since 2011, the American Psychiatric Association as well as other medicineAři and mental health experts around the world say that anorexia is a serious but treatable psychiatric disease. The documented effects of anorexia include cardiac, gastrointestinal, bones and worsening or diseases; hair loss; increased insulation and depression; And even premature death. Scientists also reveal the risk of being pro-ana and using related websites. A study published in September/October 2010 European Receipt Disorders revealed that a group of women's university women without a history of eating disorders significantly reduced their caloric intake after a short-term exposure to online materials. While the police on the Internet are almost impossible, groups such as the Nervosa Anorexia Associations and the related disorders (ANAD) have successfully convinced some website administrators to remove or revise the Pro-Ona site.