According to the text, an important question about anorexia nervosa that remains to be addressed is the following:
A) Why does anorexia occur mainly in females?
B) What social pressures trigger anorexia?
C) What keeps an overpowering hunger drive from kicking in once anorexic patients start to starve?
D) Why do many anorexics think they are fat?
E) What social pressures prevent anorexics from eating?
Question 2
The first phase of energy metabolism, the one that occurs before the food is absorbed, is the __________ phase.
Fill in the blank with the appropriate word.