Eating two larger meals a day is more effective than consuming the same amount as six smaller meals in patients with type 2 diabetes who are trying to lose weight, the findings of a crossover study suggest. The Prague-based study population comprised 54 patients (29 men) with type 2 diabetes of more than one year’s duration. They had all been treated with oral hypoglycaemic drugs. Participants’ BMI ranged from 27 to 50 kg/m² and HbA_1c 6.0-11.8%, average 7.2%. The mean age was 59.4 years and mean duration of diabetes 8.1 years.