People who achieve weight loss of 10 per cent or more in the first five years after being diagnosed with type 2 diabetes have the greatest chance of seeing their disease go into remission says a study. The findings published in the journal Diabetic Medicine suggest that it is possible to recover from the disease without intensive lifestyle interventions or extreme calorie restrictions. We've known for some time now that it's possible to send diabetes into remission using fairly drastic measures such as intensive weight loss programmes and extreme calorie restriction said study researcher Hajira Dambha-Miller from the University of