Health

Recent research suggesting that symptoms of diabetes can be reversed by diet comes as no news to me. I don’t need an American scientific experiment with mice to prove the point. I have done it myself and without any extreme dieting. A few weeks ago I went to see my GP after my annual visit to see the diabetes nurse. After tapping some notes into my on-screen file he turned to me and said, ‘I can’t remember ever writing that before “Diabetes resolved”. ’I ought to have you out in the waiting room with a placard saying “It is possible”’. Fourteen months earlier the same GP had given me the bad news. He was concerned about my blood results and he gave me a well-rehearsed talk about diabetes – what it was and what I might expect. I had become the latest statistic in the UK Type 2 Diabete...