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Do you have to be severely underweight to be anorexic? can you be fat and anorexic?
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Underweight: Usually the person weights less than 85% of the weight that is considered normal for their age and height. A stricter guideline is a body mass index equal to or below 17.5 kg/m2.
Answered 2/7/2013
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