Bioscience:Secrets of the Sequence(41)
Women who starve themselves to extreme thinness and sometimes to death may be driven as much by their genes as by society's pressures. Anorexia nervosa is a devastating illness. It is relatively rare–affecting less than 1% of the population. Sufferers are invariably women who starve themselves dangerously thin. It is the result of our obsession with thinness. But recent research is focusing attention on what may be a genetic link.
- Added:2006
- Country:America
- Duration:30
- Time of update:2011/8/16 11:44:51