Type 2 Diabetes is a major cause of ill-health and premature death world-wide. According to the World Health Organisation this disease is largely preventable. Despite this, diabetes in on the increase – type 2 diabetes is becoming much more common in people under the age of 25, being linked to obesity. Experts have linked the rise in childhood obesity with increasing levels of diabetes. Without urgent action diabetes deaths are likely to increase by more than 50% in the next 10 years.
