Excessive exercising: Anorexia may cause a person to complain about feeling bloated or nauseated even when she eats normal—or less than normal—amounts of food.

Cold Sensitivity: A person suffering from anorexia may feel cold even though temperature is normal or only slightly cool.

Fatigue: a person suffering with anorexia will often show signs of fatigue and inability to concentrate on most tasks (except food and related weight topics).

Lack of social interaction: living with anorexia nervosa can become complicated when trying to hide it in social settings involving food and eating. Avoidance of social activities that include food is a common sign.

Depressed immunity: a person suffering with anorexia may have a weakened immune system and have frequent colds, illnesses and a general feeling of not feeling well.

Depression: anorexics will often exhibit signs of depression, anxiety, guilt and sadness while struggling with their disorder.

Physical changes: a person with anorexia over time may exhibit tell-tall physical characteristics such as; downy hair growth on face, loss of menstruation cycles, dry nails, dry hair, constipation, headaches and possible hair loss.

Internet behaviors: a person with anorexia may be visiting pro-anorexic sites on internet that offers encouragement and support of this disorder. Check your computers browser cache to review history of websites it has visited.

If you suspect that one of your family members is suffering from anorexia nervosa it is important to take action now to arm yourself with information about disorder and steps you can work towards to provide help and assistance. For more information on types of treatment methods available you can visit: http://www.anorexiabulimiahelp.com/eating-disorders-treatment.htm

S.A. Smith is a freelance writer, correspondent, and contributing editor of the Anorexia Bulimia Help resource site and can be reached at http://www.anorexiabulimiahelp.com

Bubble Games

First off, as an icebreaker, set up a bubble blowing area with lots of tools and a few containers of bubble solution. Make sure you've got extra bubble mixture for later bubble games and activities.

Bubble Designs: Give each kid a piece of cardboard, construction paper or any other thick paper. Have a few containers with bubble solution and to each add a different water-based color (experiment first to see what works best with your bubble solution). Have one or more adults blow bubbles and tell kids to try and catch bubbles on their "canvas". As bubbles pop paint splatters to make a cool design (which is a great artistic gift to take home)!

Bubble Clouds: Get everyone standing in a circle with their bubble bottles and wands at hand. Choose birthday child as first to be in center of bubble ring. The kids have 30 seconds to blow bubbles at birthday child while she twists, jumps, rolls and does everything possible to avert touching bubbles. When time's up, have another guest enter ring and so on until everyone has had their turn. Make sure your camera is loaded before this game as photo opportunities here are awesome.

Bubble Popping: Choose three kids to be bubble blowers. Set a time limit and have them blow as many bubbles as they can while other kids race to pop bubbles. You can also use a bubble machine for this activity.

Bubble Hoop: Prepare a bucket-full of bubble solution and after it sets for at least a day (the longer better), pour it into a small kiddie pool. Place a hula hoop into pool and a small step stool in middle of hula hoop. Set a child on stool and then lift hula hoop up over child, as you do this a giant bubble will form around child. Have your camera ready to take pictures of child in bubble!! It's AWESOME!

Bubble Float: Designate a blowing area and separate kids into teams of 3-4. Get first team to stand and designate one of team members as Bubble Blower. Give Bubble Blower ten seconds to blow as many bubbles above heads of his team members. The object of this game is to keep bubbles floating by blowing upwards. While other groups are watching, have them count how long group keeps their bubbles in air without bubbles bursting. When last bubble bursts, it's next team's turn. The team that keeps their bubbles floating longest wins.

Bubble Contest: Give kids a few minutes to choose their bubble-blowing device from a box of bubble-blowing items you've arranged beforehand. You can also hand out bubble bottles so everyone is using same tool. Now, let's see who can blow biggest bubble, longest-lasting bubble. How about getting one bubble inside other with use of straws, and tiniest bubble, etc.

Biggest Lungs: To measure their lung capacity, have your guests take a deep breath and slowly blow through a straw on surface of a pan of solution, pulling straw up as they blow (the stronger their lungs, larger bubble will be).

Bubble Freeze: Make sure there's room in your freezer… Get kids to blow bubbles on a paper plate and then, before bubbles pop, put them in freezer and you'll all be amazed at how "cool" they come out.