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Local Author Releases Book On The Struggles of Living with an Eating Disorder
Goal is to Help Others





Living with Diabetes is tough. Living with diabetes and a life threatening eating disorder is even tougher. Local author, Amy Marcle, has written and published a new book titled “Slow Suicide…Living With Diabetes and an Eating Disorder.” In this book, Amy gives insight on the daily struggles of living with both of these illnesses. Living with both of these for a large portion of her life, she writes about her experiences attempting to manage both of these. Her method of weight loss, known as “diabulimia”, is practiced by insulin dependent women in an attempt to shed extra weight. Women who use this method, stop taking their insulin injections, which are necessary to keep blood sugars under control. As dangerous as it sounds, it develops into an eating disorder that not only affects the body, but the mind of the person who is suffering.
Amy states: “I have battled this for so long, and though I am currently in recovery, it is still a battle I must face daily. I decided to write this book to warn and to teach others of the dangerous side effects of having both insulin dependent diabetes and an eating disorder. If I can just reach and help one person, then the efforts will be worth it.”
Amy Marcle is the Human Resource manager for Dyer Foods, Inc which operates the local Food Rite Stores. She has been diabetic since she was thirteen years old and has battled an eating disorder for over ten years. She resides in Milan, Tennessee with her husband, Jason Marcle, and their daughter, Haley.
“Slow Suicide” can now be purchased on amazon.com or at createspace.com by simply searching by title or author’s name. Ms. Marcle will also have copies available locally beginning April 1, 2013. You may reach her by phone at 731-613-1586, by email at [email protected], or you can message her on Facebook.

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