Patients newly diagnosed with type 2 diabetes feel “left in the dark” and unsure what they can and can’t eat whilst sometimes waiting months to receive diabetes education, according to a new study published online today in the journal Primary Health Care Research & Development¹. The research carried out by Dr Michelle McKinley and colleagues at Queen’s University Belfast, explored the views of people recently diagnosed with diabetes and discovered that whilst waiting for a referral to a diabetes education programme, they received little or no information about what to eat. One patient reported that that were “eating enough to stay alive but eating very little” after being told they needed to lower their blood sugar (glucose) levels.