Anorexia nervosa is an eating disorder characterized by immoderate food restriction, inappropriate eating habits or rituals, obsession with having a thin figure, and an irrational fear of weight gain, as well as a distorted body self-perception.
It typically involves excessive weight loss and is diagnosed approximately nine times more often in females than in males. Due to their fear of gaining weight, individuals with this disorder restrict the amount of food they consume. Outside of medical literature, the terms anorexia nervosa and anorexia are often used interchangeably; however, anorexia is simply a medical term for lack of appetite, and the majority of individuals afflicted with anorexia nervosa do not, in fact, lose their appetites.
Patients with anorexia nervosa often experience dizziness, headaches, drowsiness, fever, and a lack of energy. To counteract these side effects, particularly the latter, individuals with anorexia may engage in other harmful behaviors, such as smoking, excessive caffeine consumption, and excessive use of diet pills, along with an increased exercise regimen.
Anorexia nervosa is often coupled with a distorted self image which may be maintained by various cognitive biases that alter how the affected individual evaluates and thinks about their body, food, and eating. People with anorexia nervosa often view themselves as overweight or "big" even when they are already underweight.
Anorexia nervosa most often has its onset in adolescence and is more prevalent among adolescent females than adolescent males.
The book is inserted in a box closed with a measuring tape. The measuring tape concept has a major appearance in the design of the whole project: Box, Book, Poster, Calendar and Body Mass Index cards.
As the girl tells her story in the book, the pages inside starts to shrink and the page numbering (measuring tape) also decreases and the typeface becomes smaller and Sarah, the illustrated girl, also starts to disappear. All this to show her suffering while living with anorexia.
In the middle of the book, Sarah becomes very weak to a point that she needs to make her decision, either to continue her suffering which leads to death, or choosing to live and getting over this disorder. So she chooses to get over anorexia and get all the treatment needed. Everything in the design of the book becomes lively again: the illustrations, the colors, the font size increases and the page numbering too.
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