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- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
(Australia)
WA health experts are worried that a third of young women with diabetes risk limb amputation and kidney failure by skipping their insulin to stay slim.
Diabetes WA says diabetes is Australia's fastest-growing chronic illness, with almost one million people diagnosed, and insulin manipulation is one of the most common eating disorders in people with type 1 diabetes.
Known by some as "diabulimia", it involves limiting or skipping insulin injections to lose weight, which puts the body into starvation mode and results in muscle and fat breaking down and weight loss.
Research suggests 30 per cent of girls and women with type 1 diabetes restrict their insulin at some time in their lives, trebling their risk of early death.
http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/-/newshome/12943152/women-told-not-to-skip-insulin-jabs/
WA health experts are worried that a third of young women with diabetes risk limb amputation and kidney failure by skipping their insulin to stay slim.
Diabetes WA says diabetes is Australia's fastest-growing chronic illness, with almost one million people diagnosed, and insulin manipulation is one of the most common eating disorders in people with type 1 diabetes.
Known by some as "diabulimia", it involves limiting or skipping insulin injections to lose weight, which puts the body into starvation mode and results in muscle and fat breaking down and weight loss.
Research suggests 30 per cent of girls and women with type 1 diabetes restrict their insulin at some time in their lives, trebling their risk of early death.
http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/-/newshome/12943152/women-told-not-to-skip-insulin-jabs/
