Most of us, myself excluded, aspires to be thin especially so much so that they often adopt unhealthy practices which lead to bulimia or diabulimia. Here are some safe tips from FDA which doesn't involve consulting a doctor and can be done by you without external help.

Diabulimia is a new term used to describe an eating disorder that’s beginning to victimize type I diabetics. As with any other eating disorder teens are the most likely to develop it. The complication is not limited to teenagers only. Any insulin dependent diabetic can become a victim. Diabulimia is developed when a type I diabetic begins to skip scheduled insulin injections as a means of weight loss.

Stephen Glass became infamous in 1998 after being exposed for fabricating large amount of his articles culminating in the famous "Hack Heaven", a story of a 15 year old hacker who landed a plum job in a software company after defacing their website. Stephen Glass became the subject of a movie titled - "Shattered Glass", which I happened to see partly today on HBO. In the process I started thinking about a somewhat similar incident I faced in recent past. The part of Stephen's story which is most interesting to me is how he duped the often skeptical and hardened editors of several famous news outlets, how did he perfectly pass the "stink test" so many times, how did he bypass the fact checking system in place at TNR?