Definitions
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- noun medicine The
manipulation ofinsulin dosage by adiabetic person in order to effect loss ofweight
Etymologies
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Examples
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LOTHIAN: Jacqueline Walsh or J.J., had a dark secret, often called diabulimia, staying thin by skipping insulin shots to purge calories.
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Perhaps most mindboggling, girls with diabetes are purposely foregoing their life-saving insulin shots in order to lose weight, a practice dubbed "diabulimia".
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Then there are new hybrid conditions such as diabulimia, which Brown suffered from, in which people with Type 1 diabetes deliberately give themselves less insulin than they need so they can lose weight.
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Then there are new hybrid conditions such as diabulimia, which Brown suffered from, in which people with Type 1 diabetes deliberately give themselves less insulin than they need so they can lose weight.
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Then there are new hybrid conditions such as diabulimia, which Brown suffered from, in which people with Type 1 diabetes deliberately give themselves less insulin than they need so they can lose weight.
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I was initially looking up "diabulimia" for research/school purposes & after reading symptoms and stories I can clearly see that I have this eating disorder.
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Desperation for thinness is a spectrum, with life-threatening diabulimia on the severe end and simple longings to be skinny at the opposite pole.
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Arguably, diabulimia is the most dangerous "stealth" anti-caloric practice anyone can do.
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Desperation for thinness is a spectrum, with life-threatening diabulimia on the severe end and simple longings to be skinny at the opposite pole.
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LOTHIAN: Jacqueline Walsh, or J.J., had a dark secret, often called diabulimia.
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