Diets ‘key to aid diabetes fight’

Personalised diets may be the key to combating the diabetes crisis, according to new research.

Tailoring food advice to individual patients helps them shed up to seven times more weight – and could stem the rising tide of cases.

Professor Arne Astrup, of the University of Copenhagen, said: “Our research shows weight loss strategies should be customised based on an individual’s biomarkers, which is a big step forward in using personalised nutrition.”