A feeling of satiety after watching a video of a mountain of ramen noodles being eaten in earnest… Even elementary and junior high school students are reduced to skin and bones by “the shivering reality of the desire to lose weight.

Did you know that one of the eating disorders, “Anorexia Nervosa,” has been under-recognized in recent years?

Currently, there are Teenagers Late teens to 20’s to 20’s It is now not only in people in their late teens and twenties, but also in junior high school and even elementary school students.

The Internet is full of information that encourages the onset of neurogenic emaciation. Video sites are lined with videos created by amateurs explaining how to lose weight, social networking sites are filled with posts and comments praising women who are clearly too thin, and several kinds of unidentified weight-loss pills directly imported from abroad are sold. …… I myself have been diagnosed with neurogenic emaciation.

I myself have been shown videos of extremely skinny women dancing by women with neurogenic emaciation and told, “I want to look like this. To me, she looked like a person on the verge of starvation, all skin and bones, but I guess she saw it differently.

Japan’s “overweight population” is the highest among developed countries.

Japan has the highest percentage of “overweight population” among developed countries in the OECD for both men and women. This is especially true for women, who are on par with developing countries in Asia and Africa.

A doctor in the field said, “In the past, patients with neurogenic emaciency were treated for their weight loss.

In the past, patients with neurogenic emaciation were in their late teens and early twenties. In the past, patients with neurogenic emaciation ranged from their late teens to In the past, most of the patients with neurogenic emaciation were women in their late teens to 30s. In the past, most of the patients with neurogenic emaciation were women in their late teens to thirties. However, in recent years, we have also seen patients in elementary school. Although they are not that aware of it, parents and school teachers often notice it and bring them to the hospital.

In Japan, the annual number of In Japan, more than 200,000 people a year suffer from eating disorders. It is estimated that more than 200,000 people visit medical institutions for eating disorders each year in Japan, but the number of specialized medical institutions is surprisingly small.

Last January, Kohnodai Hospital of the National Center for Global Health and Medicine opened the “National Support Center for Eating Disorders: Consultation Hotline. We interviewed Dr. Keisuke Kawai, a doctor at the hospital, and Masako Nakano (pseudonym), a nurse in charge of consultation.

The hospital’s consultation hotline receives a steady stream of calls four times a week on the first day of operation. Thirty percent of the calls are from the patients themselves, nearly 60% are from their parents, and the rest are from educators such as school nurses.