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Chastity was initially excited to make the cheerleading squad. However, her parents noticed that she stopped eating dinner with them, wanted to help make most meals, and had a list of good and bad foods. She began portioning and weighing the food she ate, and sometimes would claim to have already eaten. Most concerning was the significant weight drop from a healthy 115 pounds to 90 pounds. This case most clearly illustrates symptoms of

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Answer:Anorexia nervosa

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Anorexia nervosa, is a potential life threatening eating disorder, in which nindividuals undergo self starvation or restrict the number of calories they consume in order to loose weight because they think they are overweight when in truth, they are underweight. Anorexia is generally characterized by low weight, food restriction, fear of gaining weight,distorted body image, extremely thin body etc

here, Chasity who began portioning and weighing the food she ate, and also claiming to have already eaten giving rise to significant weight drop from a healthy 115 pounds to 90 pounds typically illustrates the symptoms of ANOREXIA NERVOSA

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