From:
She learned looks can kill
by Michael Daly
New York Daily News
March 30, 2005
http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/294802p-252251c.html
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At social gatherings, Terry Schiavo began piling her food plate high, as if rebelling against having to deny herself to be desirable. She would then go in the bathroom and purge lest after become before. In between binges, she attempted her own miracle diet. Her medical records would note, "She apparently has been trying to keep her weight down with dieting by herself, drinking liquids most of the time during the day and drinking about 10-15 glasses of iced tea." Then, she would rebel and binge and purge herself again, so often that her stomach lining was damaged. The enamel on the back of her teeth was eroded by gastric acids. Her bulimia nervosa became so severe that the purging deprived her heart of potassium. An executioner's lethal injection does the opposite, flooding the body with potassium, but the effect is the same. A cellular reaction known as the sodium potassium pump is disrupted and the heart can no longer beat. The paramedics got Terri Schiavo's heart thumping again, but not before she suffered irreversible brain damage. The video of her in a persistent vegetative state can be seen as a kind of an after-after picture. Michael Schiavo prevailed in the courts to have the feeding tube removed from the young woman who destroyed her health trying to remain thin. Legions of folks who say they hold all life sacred clamored to have the tube reinserted. The U.S. Congress and even the President became involved. But almost nobody was voicing outrage over the social pressures that landed Schiavo in a persistent vegetative state in 1990. Tens of thousands of other young women are presently bulimic and more than Terri Schiavo will perish. Meanwhile, we have those happy after, if not necessarily happily ever after, pictures of Anna Nicole Smith in the subway. She was saying just the other day, "I wasn't unhappy at all until just everybody started ridiculing me so bad. I just got to the point that it was just like, 'My God, you know. Just shut up, everybody. What is the big deal.' And then I just looked in the mirror. I'm like, 'I'm fat.'"
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Interesting.......