There are many reasons why people, in particular, young people succumb to what is known as disordered eating.

Families across the nation know very well the upset, sometimes the devastation that it can cause.

One group hugely affected by disordered eating are those young people who live with type 1 diabetes,

the autoimmune condition that strikes without warning

and is on the increase for reasons that are not properly understood?

This morning, a parliamentary inquiry report

is highlighting the risks of disordered eating

among people living with type 1 diabetes

and calling for essential changes to be made

to provide more effective care.

Lawrence Smith developed type 1 diabetes

and developed then a type 1 diabetes-related eating disorder.

He's been working with the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation.

I was first diagnosed with type 1 diabetes when I was three years old

and ever since then it's a conscious effort to be incredibly I was first diagnosed with type 1 diabetes when I was three years old.

And ever since then, it's a conscious effort to be incredibly aware of the food and drink that you're consuming.

So by the time of adolescence, my relationship with my body and the food I was consuming, the mental burden that it can take on you,

it slipped me into what became a very unhealthy lifestyle.

Got to the point that I was manipulating my insulin to the point of severe restriction,

which is incredibly dangerous.

My blood sugar levels were running at a dangerously high level for a dangerously long amount of time.

My weight got to an incredibly low level, but it's the long-term damage that can be really, really bad.

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