1. Thin Build Athletes and Eating Disorders
Purging affects the heart, the electrolyte balance in the body and the ph level in the blood. ... The heart, lungs and other organs vital to human survival will fail. ... Severe Hypokalemia can also disrupt the rhythm of the heart and can lead to arrhythmias and even cardiac stoppage or dysrythmia. Unlike the type of heart stoppage that is most often thought of in relation to the phrase, a heart attack from a lack of potassium is electrical and not caused by a blockage in the arteries. This means that it can be random and without warning, just the heart skipping a beat and ceasing to continue....
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