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The charity has been campaigning to get diabulimia recognised as a specific medical condition by the UK government and medical professionals.听Diabulimia is an eating disorder where type 1 diabetics omit or manipulate their insulin in order to lose weight.听However abuse of insulin in this way has serious health implications and can lead to strokes, blindness, heart attacks, kidney disease and death.听DWED says most health professionals don鈥檛 how to treat diabulimics and so outcomes for these patients is very poor. Jacqueline Allan, Director of DWED tells Jenni why proper recognition of the disorder听is crucial for the treatment and care of diabulimics in the UK. Tayler Hackett was diabulimic from the age of 12. She talks about her experience living with, and overcoming the condition.

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Brit award winning singer songwriter Kate Nash wants to encourage more women to write and perform their own music.听Two years ago she set up free Rock n Roll for Girls After School music clubs in 6 secondary schools, and this Christmas she invited some of her students to perform in front of an audience of nearly a thousand at an End of Year Gala at London鈥檚 Queen Elizabeth Hall. Tamsin Smith went to meet her backstage before the gig along with girls from Liverpool and Yeovil.

Finding out what life is like for ordinary people in North Korea is always difficult but we hear听from a journalist who鈥檚 been interviewing North Korean women about their changing economic and social status. We ask whether the failing economy is helping women gain more power in what has traditionally been a male dominated society.

In 1983, chocolate pioneer Chantal Coady put speciality chocolate onto the British High Street, with her first chocolate boutique on London鈥檚 Kings Road.听 Thirty years on, she鈥檚 internationally renowned for putting British chocolate on the global map.听 Now 80 of her favourite chocolate recipes have been published in a new book 鈥楻ococo: Mastering the Art of Chocolate鈥�. Chantal joins Jenni Murray to share the secret of the in the latest in our series 鈥楥ook the Perfect鈥�.