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Being slim seems to be every girl’s dream, but sometimes overdoing it could be lethal. A 28-year-old woman, Nana (alias), has successfully lost 20kg in five month in east China’s Jiangsu province. Yet the cost is huge and painful: She now looks as if she’s in her 60s due to the lack of nutrition

For the past 5 months, Nana only consumed boiled vegetables, even without any salt or oil. In this way, she managed to lose 20kg, weighing only 30kg now for her 155cm height. But along with her weights she also starts losing hair and teeth. Furthermore, her skins turn also wrinkle and saggy. Nana is diagnosed with anorexia along with depression after she found herself too weak to stand and thus sent to hospital.

Anorexia is an eating disorder characterized by a low weight, fear of gaining weight and a strong desire to be thin. “Many people with anorexia see themselves as overweight even though they are underweight, and this would cause osteoporosis, infertility and heart damage,” warned Nana’s doctor at Zhongda Hospital Southeast University.