article_snippet: It's not only the person with anorexia suffering, but families as well.'
article_snippet: World-leading anorexia nervosa researcher, Professor Cynthia Bulik told Daily Mail Australia that new research has revealed that people living with anorexia nervosa had four-times the number of relatives with anorexia nervosa than those who have never had the illness.
article_snippet: Ms Horman said research has shown that anorexia nervosa is astonishingly six times more common in mothers, four times more common in siblings and five times more common in the children of people living with the illness.
article_snippet: But World-leading anorexia nervosa researcher, Professor Cynthia Bulik said around 60 per cent of the reason for an individual succumbing to the eating disorder is genetic: Kate Horman (pictured), who once weighed 30kg at the height of Ms Horman illness, now estimates Ms Horman weighs a healthy 55kg . '
article_snippet: so We know anorexia runs in families
article_snippet: But Prof Bulik said the underlying causes of anorexia has been misunderstood for such a long time because so many people out there still believe the root cause of the issue is linked to sociocultural factors.
article_snippet: Standing alone, neither genetics or environmental factors are wholly responsible for an individual succumbing to the eating disorder anorexia.
article_snippet: So, if someone who is predisposed to anorexia nervosa goes on a diet because of sociocultural reasons, that could then unlock the predisposition to the disease resulting in an eating disorder,' someone who is predisposed to anorexia nervosa added.
article_snippet: a large enough sample Prof Bulik explained there's a 'fundamental difference' in how people with anorexia nervosa react to hunger. '
article_snippet: While some people may feel angry, nervous or stressed when some people are hungry, people with the predisposition to anorexia feel like that at meal time instead and find that starvation actually calms starvation.'
highlights_snippet: New research into anorexia nervosa has linked illness to genetics .
  