Updates are available Erratum dated 2017-03-14

Article History

Received: 24 March 2016

Revised: 14 September 2016

Accepted: 15 September 2016

First Online: 4 October 2016

Change Date: 14 March 2017

Change Type: Correction

Change Details: This article was originally published under a standard license, but has now been made available under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license. The pdf and html versions of the paper have been modified accordingly.

Competing interests

: WSL, MEJL and RT are currently engaged on the Diabetes Remission Clinical Trial (DiRECT) funded by Diabetes UK with additional support in kind from Cambridge Weight Plan. MEJL and RT have received support related to the use of formula diet products from Cambridge Weight Plan and from Nestle.