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Diana asked in HealthDiet & Fitness · 2 years ago

How many people die from dieting incorrectly?

Like people who starve themselves to death, like having all your organs shut down from the keto diet, or dying of dehydration or starvation from trying to get defined muscles.

I ve tried looking but all I can find are statistics referring to overweight persons.

Update:

I would appreciate a source of some sort, thank you!

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  • Kano
    Lv 7
    2 years ago
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    Very very few.

    The problems occur very slowly and soon become obvious.

    The most cases are with anorexics where it is obvious something is wrong but the person refuses treatment

  • Anonymous
    2 years ago

    They don't keep a lot of statistics like that...the fashion industry would panic! Those fashionistas would have girls believe that being grotesquely underweight is "sexy." It's not. Being too underweight is just as bad as obesity. Yet girls believe it. Some girls are absolutely convinced that they are "fat" when in fact they are close to starvation. I feel sorry for those poor kids!

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