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The number of obesity-linked diabetes cases in the UK have risen dramatically over the past ten years, it has been claimed.

According to the charity Diabetes UK, the number of people with type two diabetes in the country has gone up 69 per cent over the last decade, reports the Press.

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Ron Godfrey, business editor of the Press and sufferer of diabetes, commented: "You have to make a proper diet and proper exercise part of your daily life."

This comes after a study in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health revealed that by 2005, more than four per cent of the population in the UK was diagnosed with type two diabetes.

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This entry was posted on Wednesday, February 25th, 2009 at 6:00 pm and is filed under Diabetes.