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Would you be anorexic if you eat 450 calories a day?
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Starving Ur Body: Can only formally diagnose this in person. But eating 450 cal/day = very dangerous. This will lead to malnutrition producing heart damage, other organ damage, infertility, hair/tooth/body hair/bone loss, etc. Call natl assn of anorexia nervosa & related disorders: http://bit.Ly/14wd5ib. Anorexia nervosa = fatal mental disorder: about 10% die from suicide/starvation/metabolic failure/other.
Answered 1/19/2014
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