Anorexia Treatment. Anorexia nervosa is a serious eating disorder, particularly among young women. The following data provide the weights, in pounds, of 17 anorexic young women before and after receiving a family therapy treatment for anorexia nervosa. [SOURCE: Hand al. (ed.) A Handbook of Small Data Sets, London: Chapman & Hall, 1994. Raw data from B. Everitt (personal communication)