November 16 is International Anorexia Day. This date has been proposed for the annual celebration since 2005. Anorexia is a serious disease that is becoming increasingly common among teenage girls due to exhausting diets and starvation. Although a young body needs food, a person with this symptom has no appetite. This syndrome is accompanied by dangerous metabolic dysfunction, diseases of the digestive system and infections. The problem is very acute for society: many people criticize the unnatural standards of beauty imposed by fashion, because of which women deprive themselves of food and then get sick.

Back in 1992, Day without Diets (the second name of the holiday) took place in Great Britain. The date of the struggle against anorexia began to be celebrated in various countries of the world – in the USA, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, Denmark, Brazil, India. Since 1998, various organizations at the international level have taken the initiative to establish an official day to draw attention to the problem. So, in 2006, Uruguayan model Luisel Ramos died of a heart attack due to anorexia nervosa after a fashion show. In the same year, 22-year-old model Ana Carolina Reston died of liver failure, also caused by anorexia. The problem is very serious, it needs a solution at the global level – to convey to people the danger of excessive diets and starvation and to prevent the disease.