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Healthcare innovation has made great strides in the past few decades.

From cancer treatments to stem cell breakthroughs, 3D printed organs and even face transplants (not the Nicholas Cage-John Travolta Face-Off kind), science is moving in leaps and bounds and setting trends that most of us thought were science fiction just a few short years ago.

If you are reading this article, I imagine you have recently been diagnosed with insulin resistance (IR), pre-diabetes, type 2 diabetes (T2D) or possibly told to lose weight. My name is Megan Roberts and as an Accredited Practising Dietitian what if I told you to forget about weight despite your recent diagnosis.

As the Covid-19 pandemic dominated the headlines over the past year, the fact that the number of people living with — and dying from — diabetes has continued to rise has gone rather unnoticed.

Diabetes or its complications were responsible for the death of 6.7 million people worldwide in 2021, that’s one death every five seconds. Maybe surprisingly, there were more diabetes related deaths in 2021 than the 5.1 million registered global Covid-19 deaths since the beginning of the pandemic in early 2020.