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A new eating disorder has developed among diabetes sufferers called Diabulimia. Those who have diabetes do not produce insulin naturally, and therefore have to administer shots of insulin to maintain a healthy blood sugar and to digest carbohydrates. A common side effect of insulin is weight gain, so some people (mostly women) have been going off insulin all together and then gorging themselves on carbs and sweets, as without their insulin, they cannot digest those foods. In short, these diabulimics can eat whatever they want and still begin to waste away. According to Salon, diabulimics will "likely go blind, lose a limb, end up on dialysis, or suffer a sudden heart attack." Diabetics risk developing eating disorders at twice the rate of non-diabetics. This is pretty much the saddest thing we've read in weeks. [Salon] More »
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