... their communities, may pressure them to engage in unhealthy practices in order to appease those expectations and achieve success on the field. There are often strong beliefs in these sports that lower weight athletes perform better than their heavier peers. As in many cases, it is believed that a lower body mass index among athletes increases athletic performance and agility for a variety of different ... heart, lungs and other organs vital to human survival will fail. Even in the early stages of muscle atrophy, if a starving person is exercising it could put too much strain on the body...

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