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Could you elaborate more on how one would use an insulin dependency to "stay thin"? I am aware that many diabetics maintain a rigorous control over their diet

Could you elaborate more on how one would use an insulin dependency to "stay thin"? I am aware that many diabetics maintain a rigorous control over their diet in order to moderate the effects of their disease. This is often associated with thinness. After reading your remark, I did some reading, but was unable to turn up any suggestion as to how one would go about deliberately using either excess or insufficient levels of insulin to reduce body weight. Many a young girl is also on 'the pill' because she has discovered that menstruation is like being very slowly kicked in the balls over and over again for nearly a week while walking around with a mess in your pants. Despite this, I am sure that they will give your suggestion that they ensure the treatment is being used for its intended purpose the most solemn and serious consideration. As a health concern, the risks associated with maintaining an abnormal estrogen cycle appear to be statistically significant, even at modern dosage levels, but they are in a completely different league than the risk that would be posed by chronic antibiotic use. With regards to which, it would be good to see an actual figure for how many young celebrities use antibiotics in a chronic fashion for acne control, so that I could judge whether I would indeed be shocked or not.

sandworm101 11y ago
There are different schemes based on whether or not a person is diabetic to begin with. The simple answer is that insulin regulates the absorption of sugars. If your body, for whatever reason, cannot handle that by itself then you have to manually manipulate your own insulin levels. This gives you a physical control over what normally is an automatic process. Leverage it one way or another and you can artificially drop/gain weight as needed. It isn't healthy, but it is done.
DanBC 11y ago
"Diabulimia" is one search term you can use. http://www.joslin.org/info/Eating_Disorders_Diabulimia_in_Type_1_Diabetes.html http://www.joslin.org/info/Eating_Disorders_Diabulimia_in_Ty... > > Women with eating disorders and [type one] diabetes typically struggle with symptoms similar to those of women with eating disorders who do not have diabetes. However, they exhibit a very dangerous symptom of calorie purging in the form of insulin restriction. > but was unable to turn up any suggestion as to how one would go about deliberately using either excess or insufficient levels of insulin to reduce body weight. Well, if you think about it in terms of "eating disorder" rather than "staying thin" it makes more sense. People with eating disorder do a bunch of stuff with the aim of staying slim that doesn't have that affect. People with bulimia tend to be overweight; we know that laxatives do nothing to promote thinness; etc.

sandworm101 11y ago

There are different schemes based on whether or not a person is diabetic to begin with. The simple answer is that insulin regulates the absorption of sugars. If your body, for whatever reason, cannot handle that by itself then you have to manually manipulate your own insulin levels. This gives you a physical control over what normally is an automatic process. Leverage it one way or another and you can artificially drop/gain weight as needed. It isn't healthy, but it is done.

DanBC 11y ago

"Diabulimia" is one search term you can use. http://www.joslin.org/info/Eating_Disorders_Diabulimia_in_Type_1_Diabetes.html http://www.joslin.org/info/Eating_Disorders_Diabulimia_in_Ty... > > Women with eating disorders and [type one] diabetes typically struggle with symptoms similar to those of women with eating disorders who do not have diabetes. However, they exhibit a very dangerous symptom of calorie purging in the form of insulin restriction. > but was unable to turn up any suggestion as to how one would go about deliberately using either excess or insufficient levels of insulin to reduce body weight. Well, if you think about it in terms of "eating disorder" rather than "staying thin" it makes more sense. People with eating disorder do a bunch of stuff with the aim of staying slim that doesn't have that affect. People with bulimia tend to be overweight; we know that laxatives do nothing to promote thinness; etc.