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What happens to your body when you have anorexia?
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Starvation: Anorexia causes a severe deficiency in nutrition and protein. This results in muscle loss and multiple problems associated with poor nutrition.
Answered 3/7/2015
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Long List Bad Things: Include: malnutrition, heart damage, other organ damage, infertility, hair loss, tooth loss, body hair, bone loss, etc. See anad- natl assn of anorexia nervosa & related disorders: http://bit.Ly/14wd5ib. One stat: about 24 million people in us suffer from an ed. One ed, anorexia nervosa = the most fatal mental disorder: about 10% w/anorexia die from suicide/starvation/metabolic failure/other.
Answered 7/13/2018
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