Taking a different approach to tackling the UK's diabetes crisis

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forthcoming conference will examine the latest strategies for reducing the risk of diabetes, which researchers now believe is driven by sugar intake. David Allaby reports

When BBC TV's Newsnight programme-makers presented new research on the link between the explosion of type 2 diabetes and the consumption of sugar they came to Public Service Events' conference Obesity ? Tackling an Epidemic for an expert UK perspective.

Diabetes, a condition commonly linked directly to obesity, has a profound effect on millions of lives and its treatment costs the NHS an estimated ?1.5m an hour. New research by US scientists, collating 10 years of data from 175 countries, finds that the more sugar there is in a population's diet the higher the incidence of diabetes.

http://www.publicservice.co.uk/feature_story.asp?id=22052
 
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