Unintentional Weight Loss as a Trigger for Anorexia.
Some of the biggest misunderstandings about Anorexia Nervosa center around it being an intentional illness and related to vanity. A paper by Brandenburg and Andersen in 2007 entitled Unintentional Onset of Anorexia details case histories of 5 individuals who were deemed to have anorexia precipitated by “unintended weight loss” as opposed to the “more typical …