Individuals with anorexia nervosa who consume very little food often exhibit paradoxically high levels of LDL cholesterol, challenging the dietary cholesterol hypothesis.

“One of the symptoms that's a little more cryptic, and that has actually interesting implications for sake of the cholesterol hypothesis is that anorexics who ingest very little food often have cosmically high levels of cholesterol, including LDL, low density, lipoprotein cholesterol.”