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For some people with diabetes, manipulating insulin to achieve weight loss has turned into a dangerous phenomenon nicknamed “diabulimia.” Diabulimia is a portmanteau of diabetes and bulimia and is believed in some estimates to affect approximately 30% of women with Type 1 diabetes.