Anorexia vs. Fasting — What's the Difference?

Loss of appetite, especially as a result of disease.

Fasting is the willful refrainment from eating and sometimes drinking (see Water fasting and Juice fasting). From a purely physiological context, "fasting" may refer to the metabolic status of a person who has not eaten overnight (see the "break fast"), or to the metabolic state achieved after complete digestion and absorption of a meal.

Anorexia nervosa.

To abstain from food.

Loss of appetite, especially as a result of disease.

To eat very little or abstain from certain foods, especially as a religious discipline.

Anorexia nervosa.

The act or practice of abstaining from or eating very little food.

Want of appetite, without a loathing of food.

A period of such abstention or self-denial.

A prolonged disorder of eating due to loss of appetite

Abstinence or mortification for religious reasons, especially abstinence from food.

Abstinence from food, limiting caloric intake, for medical or health reasons, dieting.

Abstaining from food