Hunter-gatherer type of diet could prevent and treat diabetes

DIABETES could be avoided if people ate a “stone-age” diet consisting of fruit, nuts, vegetables and lean meat or fish, a study suggests.

Scientists found patients with poor glucose control greatly improved their ability to handle sugar after switching to prehistoric eating habits.

The “Palaeolithic” diet given to the volunteers was similar to what early modern humans were eating 70,000 years ago. At that time, humans were hunter-gatherers feeding off the land.