What is the danger of being underweight for a long period of time?
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If you eat healthy and exercise and your still underweight really nothing! Just try and stay fit!
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death
Undernourishment, illness, and, eventually, death.
Low self-esteem, impropor diet, and inactivity leading to depression and other mental disorders.
High blood pressure from the extra work your heart has to work to get propor blood supply to your body increasing your risk for heart attack and stroke, diabetes and respiratory disorders.
Lanugo (fetal hair) grows all over your body.
If you're a girl, your period stops, putting your fertility in danger.
Your bones become brittle.
Your immune system sucks.
When you try to eat food, your body rejects it.
Death.
What you are describing is Anorexia. Anorexia is an eating disorder where people starve themselves. Anorexia usually begins in young people around the onset of puberty. Individuals suffering from anorexia have extreme weight loss. Weight loss is usually 15% below the person's normal body weight. People suffering from anorexia are very skinny but are convinced that they are overweight. Weight loss is obtained by many ways. Some of the common techniques used are excessive exercise, intake of laxatives and not eating.
Anorexics have an intense fear of becoming fat. Their dieting habits develop from this fear. Anorexia mainly affects adolescent girls.
People with anorexia continue to think they are overweight even after they become extremely thin, are very ill or near death. Often they will develop strange eating habits such as refusing to eat in front of other people. Sometimes the individuals will prepare big meals for others while refusing to eat any of it.
It may take psychological help to break the cycle.
You can face arthritice or other joint pain problems. You can't withstand cold. You can become impotent. If there is not any problem you will be very active.
You will be high tempered. Your decision making can be improper.
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SHREE SWASTHYAYOG TREATMENT TRG. AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE
R.H.19, JHULELAL SOC., SEC-2E, AIROLI, NAVI MUMBAI, INDIA.
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