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Deadly Serious Information
Anorexia usually develops in adolescence -- right at the time when you are supposed to be putting down the critical bone mass that will sustain you through adulthood, you are actually loosing it. There is a very narrow window of time in which to get enough bone mass to last you a lifetime," and it is one of the most irreversible complications of the illness.
The most life-threatening damage is on your heart. As you loose weight the body starts to loose muscle mass. Remember you heart is a muscle. As you notice weight loss on the outside the body is loosing fat and muscle on the inside including your heart muscle. Your heart is getting smaller and weaker. You put your heart under even more pressure when you increase your circulation by extreme exercise and gradually your pulse and your blood pressure get lower.
Damage to your body through anorexia starts earlier than you probably thought. Even before a person with anorexia starts to look "too thin," all these serious medical consequences have started inside.
Many young women who begin eating a severely restricted diet stop menstruating much sooner before serious weight loss sets in and worried friends or family try to help. Many people with anorexia are teenage girls and young women and this can also have long-term consequences on the ability to bear children.
Starving to death is not attractive, glamorous or beautiful. The tired body hurts and aches constantly the skin is bruised and sores seep from the skin being stretched over prominent brittle bones that splinter and break where they are so fragile. Your bowels stop working and your body starves you of sleep because it thinks its in the middle of a famine. It stays alert in order to be ready to find desperately needed food. Dehydration causes a dry mouth and sore cracking of the skin and a pounding headache distracts you from your slowing brain. Your eyes dry and blur and your heart beats hard and painfully in your chest . Your lungs struggle to draw breath you feel overwhelmingly sick .
You can die from bulimia and it doesn't matter what you weigh. Many bulimics can die while in the act of purging, and are found unconscious next to the toilet. You know the feeling of your own heart racing each time that you make yourself sick. These sudden changes in electrolyte balance can stop the heart from beating. Electrolyte imbalance can also cause the body to feel sick , agitated and anxious and nervous.
More deaths occur from compulsive eating than anorexia and bulimia from the effects of extreme obesity. Compulsive eating disorder causes sufferers to become socially isolated due to the extreme rejection towards fatness in our society today.
An eating disorder can change your metabolic rate and actually cause your body to become better at storing fat rather than burning it up. Weight ,shape and appetite are basically controlled genetically and we do not have a lot of choice.
Eating disorders are serious life threatening illnesses. Unfortunately for these well known people it is to late to turn the clock back.....
Christ Henrich died from her eating disorder
Lena Zavaroni actress died from her
eating disorder anorexia
Helga Brathen - gymnast who died of anorexia
Samantha and Michela Kendal – Twins both died from anorexia
Karen Carpenter – Singer from ‘ The Carpenters’ died from anorexia
Elvis Presley – Compulsive eating
Alfred Hitchcock – Compulsive eating
