What are cylinders in a car? They are the hollowed out shapes/areas in the motor block, which the pistons move up and down through. The petrol is let into the cylinder, when piston pushes up, the petrol eâ¦xplodes and pushes the piston down. The bigger the cylinder the bigger to push, the more powerful the motor.
1 One in 200 American women suffers from anorexia. 2  Two to three in 100 American women suffers from bulimia. 3  Nearly half of all Americans personally know someone with an eating disorder (Note: One in five Americans suffers from mental illnesses.)  An estimated 10 â 15% of people with anorexia or bulimia are males.
Patients who suffer from anorexia nervosa have a distorted body image and an excessive, obsessive fear of obesity, even when they are morbidly underweight. Patients with anorexia nervosa do not necessarily lose their appetite but rather obsessively control and restrict their food intake. Anorexia nervosa is classified as a mental illness. It starts most often during the patientâs teenage years or young adulthood. Anorexia nervosa is an eating disorder characterized by an irrational fear of food as well as extreme, life-threatening weight loss.