A Red Flag Physically active adolescent girls and young women may eliminate meat from their diets to achieve or maintain low body weight. By doing so, they risk developing protein, iron, and zinc deficiencies. Diagnosis and management of weight loss in the elderly. Weight loss occurs commonly in elderly individuals, and is associated with functional decline and mortality. But it's time to separate the good fats from the bad.
Good fats can improve health without necessarily trimming flavor or the fun of food.
So that's what a heart attack feels like, Caroline Winkler thought. She had been starving herself for less than two years. She still weighed more than 90 pounds at 5 feet 6 inches. She didn't actually consider herself anorexic. Anorexics were supposed to be real thin.