article_snippet.sent: type 2 diabetes, which affects more than 2.7 million Britons.
article_snippet.sent: Rates of type 2 diabetes are soaring due to increasing obesity, unhealthy diets, a lack of exercise and an ageing population.
article_snippet.sent: Step one went the convenience foods and in came a strict two-month, 800 calorie-a-day diet under the watchful eye of professor Roy Taylor at Newcastle University.
article_snippet.sent: Step one is conducting a study, funded by charity Diabetes UK, which aims to see if a low-calorie diet can permanently reverse type 2 diabetes.
article_snippet.sent: For more information, go to diabetes.co.uk.