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Question

Check this out.. My wife in Germany has a German friend whom she is: Female, 50 years old, is 164 meters high, and weighs 50 kg takes multivitamin, workout about 3 times a week; running, aerobics etc. She eats one brotchen in the mornings with three cups of coffee, each cup of coffee she addtionally adds two tablespoon full of instant coffee. She eats lots of sweets and she thinks she is overweight. My wife believes she is not bulimic or anorexia but the point is that the lady thinks that is better to be underweight than overweight. My wife said to her that it is dangerous to be underweight.The lady does not believe it. When my wife researched in the internet all that she found was that underweight people might have vitamin deficiency, problem with her period, anemia, but really nothing else compared to overweight people which have a mountain of things that can go wrong including heart attacks.If a person does not have Anorexia or Bulimia is it dangerous to be underweight?if so, How?

Answer 1

I am in the country next to you ... anyway being underweight can cause a women to have irregular menses which can lead to thickening of the uterine wall and other female related conditions. B12 deficiency is also a possibility if she is not eating healthy. B12 deficiency can cause neurological problems, hair loss and sleeplessness to name a few. Also, she puts her self at risk for other disease like kidney and heart problems. It all depends on how underweight she is and her diet. Personally I would die drinking coffee like that, I can not even handle Turkish coffee..Eating a lot of sweets and not good foods can lead to her becoming diabetic.

Answer 2

being underweight also decreases the immune response, those who are underweight cannot fight off infection or illness as well as others. They tend to be slower to heal as well. The body spends most of it's energy just keeping the underweight body going, so when something outside the norm happens, the body cannot adjust as readily.