A 15-year-old girl in Shanghai died of blindly reducing weight despite the effort of Shanghai’s largest hospital to save her. She was 165 cm tall and weighed 30 kilos when she died.
A 17-year-girl was sent to hospital for anorexia. Under the doctors’ physical and psychological treatment, she recovered and rid herself of the wrong idea of blindly losing weight.
The dead girl started to lose weight when her weight reached 54 kilos. She kept doing so blindly and finally fell ill. She died out of brain bleeding and exhaustion of internal organs.
The 17-year-old girl had been keen on dancing since childhood. She signed up for art school entrance examinations a few years ago, but failed because of overweight.
From then on, she made up her mind to lose weight and dieted on laver and preserved plums only. Later, she was hit by the strange idea of feeling herself overweight even though she was very slim. She became abnormal in both behavior and character, and was hospitalized in the end.
According to Professor Ning Guang with the Shanghai Ruijin Hospital, while practicing a scientific method of losing weight, one has to follow the doctors guidance and advice, chooses a balanced diet and has a reasonable intake of energy, fat, protein and carbohydrate. One should also do physical exercises, he added.
In recent years, many young girls had a wrong idea of losing weight. A survey shows that the ratio of malnutrition among Shanghai middle school students hits 24.08 percent. Yet many girls show the tendency toward losing weight.
Experts urge that girls should have a proper approach towards weight losing and treat themselves and their lives well and be healthy girls.
(People’s Daily 01/20/2001)
