We'll learn shortly what the real cause of death was, and it wasn't heart disease.
Exactly. Her heart stopped beating; she stopped breathing.......well, DUH!
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You can't be really sure about heart disease. She could well have had a heart defect that was never detected.
Did you know that more women than men die from heart disease? It's the number one killer of women (not breast cancer or AIDS). Part of the reason is that women are often lulled into believing that they are immune to heart disease. Doctors said for years that women were immune to heart attacks because of their hormonal makeup. Well, that's not true. However, many women still believe this karp and the result is, that when they have symptoms, they usually ignore them. What's more, fewer women than men experience the proverbial elephant-sitting-on-the-chest pain of heart attack. When I had my cardiac arrest, I had no pain. My only symptom was shortness of breath, which I ignored until it was almost too late.
And you don't have to be 40 or 50 or more to have a heart attack or sustain a cardiac arrest. Heart attacks can happen at any time, at any age.
Now, all this speculation of anorexia and/or drugs — those theories are possible. But before we get our exercise jumping to conclusions, I would rather wait for the autopsy or further developments.