Eating Disorders Help

Eating disorders can damage every part of the body, the heart and cardiovascular system in particular. At least one-third of deaths in patients with anorexia are attributed to cardiac causes, research shows. With February being American Heart Month, it’s a good time to consider how eating disorders can impact the heart – and why getting into treatment to restore balanced eating and allowing the heart to heal is so vitally necessary. The Heart and Anorexia It’s hard to think of an organ that’s more important than the heart. Beating an average of 115,000 times a day, the heart is responsible for transporting blood, oxygen and nutrients around the body. We can’t live for more than a few minutes without it pumping. As strong as the heart is, it’s also very vulnerable to the deprivation of calories and nutrients that marks anorexia. Anorexia symptoms include a severely restricted intake of calories and food, and often a very low body mass index (BMI). These physical signs are usua