‘People in their 30s could be developing diabetes and should cut carbs’

An expert has warned that most people in their 30s could unknowingly be on the way to developing diabetes and should consider cutting carbohydrates out of their diets (Rui Vieira/PA)

Most people in their 30s could unknowingly be on the way to developing diabetes and should consider cutting carbohydrates out of their diets, an expert has warned.

Professor Joan Taylor, from De Montfort University, said NHS guidance which currently says carbohydrates should make up just over a third of what we eat should be changed to around 10%.