Endocrine Abstracts

Not everyone who has the capacity to make positive choices about their lifestyle to care for their health is either ready or willing to make these choices. This lack of interest is frustrating for both family members and healthcare professionals. Many young people living with diabetes understand why caring for diabetes is important but do not see it as a priority and do not have the confidence to put different behaviours into practice. Confidence to change requires the young p...

Introduction: Young people with an eating disorder are likely to have a morbid preoccupation with weight and/or shape associated with a dread of fatness, a determined avoidance of food with dramatic loss of weight (Anorexia nervosa) or binge-eating followed by self-purging through self-induced vomiting, use of laxatives or diuretics (Bulimia Nervosa). Diabetes is uniquely placed to offer opportunities for weight and shape control without overt avoidance of food. It is increasi...