This is a disturbing thought, but diabetes might be the death of us all. Why? It foretells the demise of the NHS, which spends £10billion a year on it.
And that will only rise in parallel with obesity, which is at the root of type 2 diabetes. So anything to lower the risk of it developing gets my vote.
Manchester University researchers believe a NHS behaviour-change programme would head off type 2 diabetes in people with blood sugar that is already raised – known as prediabetes. In fact the risk of prediabetes progressing to diabetes was shown to be 20% lower in people on the programme.
