I was slim, fit and a full-time GP with a healthy diet… but then I discovered I had ‘Type 1.5’ diabetes. So many haven’t heard of it – or even realise they have it: DR DAWN HARPER

I was exhausted after a long day of filming, getting ready to drive home, when one of the researchers sidled up to me, looking grave.

‘I just wanted to flag, Dawn, that some of your test results came back a bit strange,’ she said. ‘It’s probably a lab error, but you might want to get your blood sugar levels checked. According to this, you’re prediabetic.’

I stared at her, shocked. The producers of the Channel 4 series Embarrassing Bodies, that I co-hosted for nine years, loved putting us through the wringer with blood, stool and fitness tests, to measure our own health

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