Healthy weight and exercise can reduce risk of type 2 diabetes

While obesity and type 2 diabetes are twins, research shows that eating a healthy diet and getting regular exercise can greatly help reduce the risk of gaining weight and even put type 2 diabetes into remission.

According to Professor Schulze: "Our findings highlight the importance of preventing the development of metabolic diseases. They suggest that even individuals in good metabolic health may benefit from early behavioural management to improve their diet and increased physical activity in order to guard against progression to poor metabolic health."

In addition Benedict Jephcote, Editor of Diabetes.co.uk, said: "The take-home message from this study is that those who are at a healthy weight, and metabolically healthy too, are in the best position to avoid heart disease. This can be achieved by eat real, unprocessed foods and prioritising non-starchy vegetables over starchy foods.

"In 2015, we launched our Low Carb Program which helps people to choose a way of eating that can help people achieve better metabolic health. The program has allowed people to achieve great success and many people have found it to be so successful that they no longer need some of their diabetes medication."