Nervnaya anoreksiya v nastoyashchee vremya predstavlyaet vazhnuyu mezhdistsiplinarnuyu problemu. S odnoy storony, vyrazhennye kolichestvennye i kachestvennye ogranicheniya v pitanii negativno vliyayut na funktsii prakticheski vsekh organov i sistem organizma, s drugoy, otmechayushchiysya rost zabolevaniya v populyatsii i otsutstvie standartnogo podkhoda k diagnostike i lecheniyu ob"yasnyaet aktual"nost" dannoy raboty v nauchnom i prakticheskom plane.