Posted by Kathrin on November 10, 2000 at 01:44:13:

In Reply to: What really happens to your body when you starve it?? posted by anonymous on November 08, 2000 at 16:21:44:

Well here's some of the dangers
Blood pressure and pulse rate get really low respectively slow. My pulse went down to almost 40 per minute and under 40, I heard, is dangerous. At night it goes down more so I was scared.
The body temperature gets really low.
If there is no more fat tissue that the body can/wants to use, it will eat away muscles, also those of your inner organs. For example your heart muscle. This is lefe-threatening. A frined of mine actually was in the hospital for that.
It can also have effects on your body that last. Your heart may stay smaller. Your life-expectancy may get shorter. What i really recommend is that you read the book "Wasted" by Marya Hornbacher. She talks about all that stuff, and how it affected her life.
The thing is, starvation is not funny, it is life-threatening, people actually can starve themselves to death.
PLEASE know that it is not worth it!!!

kathrin
sorry if I scare you. i am just very very worried for you. I was anorexic myself and I was scared. It helped me eat more again to know of these dangers. PLEASE try to get better.