Having an eating disorder not only dramatically alters your weight it can also affect your bone development.

Researchers at Massachusetts general hospital studied 10 adolescent girls with mild anorexia, and compared them to 10 girls without the disorder.

Each girl underwent high-resolution CT scans.

The researchers found girls with anorexia had already begun to experience negative changes in their bone structure.

Experts say malnourishment can impair bone development, and put anorexic patients at risk for osteoporosis later in life.

And in other medical news…
Using assisted reproductive technology to get pregnant may increase the risk for birth defects, according to a new CDC study.

Assisted reproductive technology, or ART, includes any procedure in which an egg is removed, then combined with sperm and implanted again, like in vitro fertilization.

Researchers at the CDC compared 281 single births in which ART was used, and compared them to over 14,000 natural births.

They found the risk for heart defects and cleft lip were two times higher in the ART group; the risk for gastrointestinal defects was four times higher.

The overall risk for birth defects among babies conceived using ART is still relatively low. For example, the chance of being born with a cleft lip is one in 425.