Over half of the women who are anorexic or bulimic end up dead at a very early age. This is not a pleasant fact, but it's the truth. Women who don't get enough nourishment start to thin out and their bones start to weaken making them frail and easy to fracture. Lack of food also affects many other parts of the body and it can get as bad as brain damage, or even death. The main causes of this fatal problem arise from many different sources.
Young women are the main targets, however, because they are under a lot of pressure.
Pressure to look good, pressure to achieve, and pressure to be a woman. While stress is the main cause of this disease, other issues are quite problematic as well. Anorexia, believe it or not, can also be caused by genetics. If someone in a young women's family is anorexic or bulimic, it is more common that the young women will have an eating disorder as well. The society's view and the media play an even bigger role, though, as this is the image that women are trying to live up to.