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Coming up in today's program, tackling obesity, don't be nasty to overweight people, was how the media summarised last week's draft guidance from Nice on shrinking the nation's growing waistband.

We debate whether classifying obesity as a disease is likely to be a help or a hindrance.

And I visit Public Health England's first ever conference on Lyme disease

for an update on the latest thinking on the diagnosis and treatment of this tick-borne infection.

But first, Tom Hanks' revelation that he has type 2 diabetes in itself, not that unusual.

At least 2 million people are currently thought to have the condition in the UK.

No, what caught our attention here at Inside Health was the actor's admission that his doctor had been monitoring him for many years,

and that he'd graduated from having high normal blood sugar levels to full-blown diabetes.

So can doctors predict who's going to develop the condition long before they do?

Dr Stephen Lawrence is a GP and primary care medical advisor for Diabetes UK,

and he's on the line from his surgery in Ken.

Dr Lawrence, is there such a thing as a pre-diabetic state?

That's a very interesting question. There are in the region of around 7 million people in the UK who are potentially pre-diabetic,

that is at risk of diabetes.

And this is exemplified by the fact that they perhaps carry around a lot more weight around the midrift than would be expected.

And also, if you were to check the glucose levels,

you may find that they fall within a group that is, whilst it isn't diabetes,

it certainly isn't within the normal range.

Because it might come as a surprise to a lot of people who think you either got diabetes

or you haven't, but what you're saying effectively, there's a sort of grey area in

between. Do we know that these people who are lying twixt normality and confirmed diabetes,

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