It is National Eating Disorder Awareness Week, and many in the patient blogosphere are bringing much-needed attention to this issue. This year’s theme is one that resonates well for us in the D-Community: “Everybody knows somebody“…
We know that many fellow PWDs (people with diabetes) struggle with this very issue to varying degrees. Some stats show that type 1 PWDs are twice as likely to develop an eating disorder! Mike wrote about his own struggles with emotional…
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By
MikeH on
January 22, 2013
As much as I may not want to admit it, the confession I need to make is that I’m a guy who is an emotional eater.
There’s no denying it. Sure, I have thought this to myself many times before and I’ve probably mumbled it out loud when no one else was around. But this is the first time I’ve actually written it down and shared it with the online world.
That is a huge…
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By
AmyT on
October 28, 2010
In the summer of 2007, a seemingly new eating disorder emerged in mainstream media, one that was directly tied to diabetes. It was dubbed “diabulimia,” in which a person with diabetes restricts or completely stops taking their insulin in order to lose weight. Like most things in pop culture, diabulimia was a flash in the news pan and then quickly disappeared from public consciousness.
But this isn’t some fleeting fashion trend; just because it isn’t…
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