"Paul F. Dietz" wrote in message ...
This has been a tangent, but your statements here really aren'y
true. Anorexia is a neurohemical disorder. It's not a conscious
choice on anyone's part. These victims literally cannot force
themselves to eat enough -- the underlying brain circuitry that
controls satiation and disgust won't let them. This is no more
a choice than (say) Alzheimer's disease.

I'd disagree, and the fact that people can successfully
battle anorexia is proof that your analogy is not apt.
The neurochemical disorders in anorexics brains do not
force them to do things they create urges. They do
have a choice, it's just heavily biased toward not
eating. This is not at all the same as Alzheimer's
disease. It is far more akin to, say, alcoholism,
cocaine addiction, clinical depression, or OCD. Also,
not all anorexia is due to a neurochemical disorder.