The Miami (FL) Herald (11/20, Mayo) reports on diabulimia, “an eating disorder combined with the chronic illness of type 1 diabetes [T1D].” The condition, in which “patients learn how to restrict, or even omit, their insulin in order to lose or control weight,” is “growing at an alarming rate among adolescents and young patients with” T1D.
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— “They’re underdosing insulin to lose weight. It’s a risky game diabetic girls are playing , “Christina Mayo, The Miami Herald, November 20, 2019