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4 pages in length. The extent to which a low-calorie approach to dieting equates to decreased bone mineral density (BMD) is both grand and far-reaching; that teenage and young adult women represent eighty percent of the total population experiencing bone mass loss speaks to a cultural indoctrination of distorted body image. Two categories in particular depict a preponderance of females who engage in a low-calorie diet and have a greater rate of bone mass reduction: athletes and eating disorder sufferers. Bibliography lists 13 sources.
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experiencing bone mass loss speaks to a cultural indoctrination of distorted body image. Two categories in particular depict a preponderance of females who engage in a low-calorie diet and
have a greater rate of bone mass reduction: athletes and eating disorder sufferers. Clark4 cites findings of a Central Michigan University study whereby over half of the twenty-eight high school
female cross-country runners respondents suffered shin splints and/or stress fractures, clearly indicating the extent of their premature bone weakness. That athletes are routinely on diets in order to maintain
a specific weight for achieving best physical performance indicates the correlation between reduced caloric consumption and compromised bone mass.6,7 Kirn6 notes how any diet change to augment caloric intake
should be accomplished slowly at two to three hundred daily calories. Training may have to be reduced so as not to offset the benefit of additional calories. "The
problem of the young female athlete who develops an eating disorder and has enough of an energy deficit to become amenorrheic, thereby putting her bone health at serious risk, has
not been generally recognized long enough for there to be any definitive guidance for physicians. But it is common enough, particularly among track and cross-country runners, that physicians need
to take note of amenorrhea and/or a history of stress fracture, and have suspicion..."6 Whether psychological, physiological, environmental or psychopathological in nature,
anorexia nervosa brings about the same bodily breakdown, a point researchers are now better able to address with an accurate origin. In order to protect itself, the body shifts
into a slower gear, allowing the menstrual periods to stop, and the breathing, pulse and blood pressure rates drop as well. Reduced muscle mass is a particular danger to
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