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COACH_TANYA
11/5/07 11:04 A
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When not enough energy and nutrients are being consumed the bodies first response is to slow down its metabolism or the rate that the energy is being used so that it can conserve as much as possible. If that continued starvation continues then the body is forced to break down its body for energy because the hear has to beat, the lung continue to expand and the blood continues to circulate. Over time it burns fat and muscles including organs to get the energy that is needed. The body will eventually shut down when there is no more energy to be created from destroying muscles, organ and no further fat reserves which is what leads to death in many anorexics.
The body has short term responses and coping mechanisms and anorexia pushes those mechanisms to the extremes.
Coach Tanya
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PUMMEPOISON
11/4/07 7:10 P
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| When we eat too little, our body goes into starvation mode and looks to store fat. But the energy to live has to come from somewhere, right? Anorexics are thin because they've been in starvation mode that their bodies essentialy begin to eat themselves. They loose not only fat, bur organ mass, bone mass, not just fat. That's why they are so fragile.
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BROWNIEGURL
11/4/07 6:05 P
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| If we eat less than our caloric need, our body will turn energy into fat right? then why are most anerecixs so skinny with nothing on their bodies but bones and skin???
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