This presentation focus on which role nutrition plays in developing diabetes and how obesity affects diabetes development. Obesity and weight gain dramatically increase the risk of developing type 2 diabetes. But it’s not only the total calorie intake and the BMI that counts, so does the distribution between fat, protein and carbohydrates, in other words the nutrition. In continuation of this it will be discussed how a restricting intake of carbohydrates might be the way to reduce or even eliminate the use of medication in diabetes treatments. Participants: Arne Astrup & Venkat Narayan. Narrator: Richard Steed. Instructors: Assistant professor Nicolai J. Wewer Albrechtsen, Professor Signe Sørensen Torekov and professor Jens Juul Holst.