Type 2 diabetes often comes hand in hand with other so-called “lifestyle diseases” such as heart conditions and obesity, and doctors have for decades been telling people with diabetes to lose weight to lessen the impact of the disease. But losing weight is not enough, according to scientists and doctors at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, who have been studying the impact of weight loss on over 37,000 diabetes patients. “Very few patients diagnosed with type 2 diabetes are able to achieve normal blood glucose levels through weight loss alone,” according to the team, whose findings were pub…