Background: Anorexia nervosa is  a psychiatric  and  life-threatening  eating disorder characterized by low body weight, nutritional limitation, afraid of getting fat, and a strong urge of being thin.

Objective: The objective of this research is to find out the rising incidence of anorexia nervosa and to detect eating attitudes among female students of johar institute of professional studies, Lahore.

Material and Method: This cross sectional study was conducted on March 2021 to August 2021 among female students of Johar Institute of Professional Studies. Data was collected from113 students via non probability convenience sampling techique. Participants were screened for eligibility criteria. We included female hostilities and day scholar with minimum age was 18 years & maximum age was 26 years. The exclusion criteria include male sex, age less than 18 and greater than 26, students having psychological disorders, history of GIT, athletes & neurological disorders. Eating attitude test (EAT26) questionnaire was used for data collection. Data was analyzed using SPSS version 21.

Result: A total of 52 students were 18-22 years old while 61 students were 22- 26  years   old.  This   study  revealed  that   (39.80%)   45   students   consider nunderweight,  (58.40%)  66  participants  were  normal  and  (1.80%)  2  were overweight while 7 Day Scholar females were anorexic and 37 subjects had no symptoms and 42 hostilities were anorexic and 27 had no symptoms. According to EAT26 score, from total 113 participants there were 64 students indicating healthy, 6 subjects were mild anorexic, 11 students were moderate anorexic and 32 were severe anorexic.

Conclusion: According to this research, it has been concluded the majority of female students exhibited indications of anorexia nervosa. Anorexia nervosa was prevalent asmong hostilities as compare today scholars.

Keywords:  Anorexia  nervosa,  Eating  disorder,  Body  mass  index,  EAT-26, Female, students