Like other overweight teens, Erin M. Akers longed to be slender. Unlike other girls, she discovered that she possessed a powerful weight-loss gimmick, a secret reward for being diagnosed at age 10 with her detested disease, type 1 diabetes.

A new eating disorder termed “diabulimia” is on the rise in many teenage girls and young women with Type 1 diabetes who are looking to lose weight. “Diabulimia” is a practice in which young women purposely skip their daily insulin injections which can ultimately result in weight loss. It is believed that over 450,000 women [...]