The constant pressure placed on athletes by family, coaches and their communities, may pressure them to engage in unhealthy practices in order to appease those expectations and achieve success on the field. There are often strong beliefs in these sports that lower weight athletes perform better than their heavier peers. ... Even in the early stages of muscle atrophy, if a starving person is exercising it could put too much strain on the body's organs resulting in a possibility of organ failure. ... In fact it has been said (who said it) that many athletes have higher self-esteem than i...

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