Which Eating Disorder Damages the Heart?
Audrey Hepburn, Kristy Henrich, Nicole Richie, Sally Field, Jane Fonda, Mary-Kate Olsen, Tracy Gold all have one thing in common besides being in the spotlight. Some of these women died of heart failure or struggled with numerous health problems due to one major eating disorder. Other every-day women who are writers, clerks, teachers, mothers, teens, grandmothers share the same disease.
ANOREXIA NERVOSA is a potentially life-threatening eating disorder that is characterized by self-starvation and excessive weight loss. It puts an enormous stress on the body, especially the heart. "The cardiac tolls are acute and significant, and set in quickly," says Diane Mickley, MD, co-president of the National Eating Disorders Association and the founder and director of the Wilkins Center for Eating Disorders in Greenwich .
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I have been told that heart problems can set in very quickly with anorexia, as short as a couple of months.