1. Eating Dissorders in Women After Age 30
The physical aspects of anorexia is starvation and emaciation which can be accomplished by severe dieting or by purging. In January 1983, pop singer Karen Carpenter died of heart failure associated with low serum potassium - a consequence of prolonged starvation. ... Anorexic thoughts and behaviors encourage self-destructiveness and make it harder for anorexics to give up their self-starvation to choose life over a living or actual death. ...
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