'What to eat if you discover you’re prediabetic' ... here's a guide to the right diet to follow

The useful part

The condition increases the risk of cardiovascular disease and stroke by at least 30 per cent for men and up to 50 per cent for women. Up to 70 per cent of people with prediabetes will go on to develop diabetes – unless they change their diet and lifestyle and take steps to reverse it. Also known as non-diabetic hyperglycaemia, it's a condition where your blood sugar levels are higher than normal but not yet high enough to be diagnosed as Type 2 diabetes.

How it works

• The risk factors for prediabetes are broadly similar to those for Type 2 diabetes – particularly being overweight or obese and over the age of 45.
• How to Reverse Type 2 Diabetes and Prediabetes, says: "Prediabetes doesn't need medication.
• Doing this very powerfully treats, and can reverse prediabetes, in a very high number of people." Many leading experts in diabetes and prediabetes recommend following a low-carbohydrate diet which involves...
• Prediabetes is estimated to affect around 5.1 million people in England, according to Diabetes UK.
• In people under 40, there has been an increase of almost a quarter in the same period – and experts fear that this is just the tip of the iceberg.

What to take from it

According to Diabetes.co.uk, around seven million people are estimated to have prediabetes in the UK. The most important thing is that people need to change what they are eating.

Details worth keeping

Why is my diet important in managing pre-diabetes? Dr David Cavan, a consultant endocrinologist and the author of.