g after muscle and as your heart is a muscle, your body will start eating it to compensate for the lack of caloric intake. many other illnesses also go along with anorexia, including depression, anemia (lack of iron in red blood cells), dehydration, malnutrition, osteoporosis, and many others. anorexia is also hard because it is so hard to recover from because its as much a mental disease as a phys