[ABSTRACT] In 1992, more than 90% of the adult population of European women confessed having initiated a more or less severe diet at some time in their lives. When does a normal diet switch to anorexia , with disastrous consequences? The pandemic increase in the western world of anorexia links it to certain social and cultural factors that might enhance its appearance, even though we cannot consider anorexia being a post-modern disorder.(1) The article considers some of the frequently obse