Alexa Williams
10/29/09
2:54PM
Research has found that a healthy diet and exercise can keep diabetes for showing up for at least a full extra decade. The researched was conducted by following three thousand over-weight diabetics and treating them with either metformin or a placebo and having a certain number of them stick to a strictly regimented diet and exercise program. They found that the people dieting and exercising benefited the most from their treatment. Given a diet aimed at getting 7 percent weight lose and exercising half an hour five times a week, reduced the chances of developing Type II Diabetes by 58 percent.
This is not very shocking to me given that diabetes runs in my dad’s side of the family. The people that do not exercise or eat well and are significantly overweight are the ones who have the worst cases of diabetes. It is amazing the kind of health risks you can eliminate simply by eating right and staying physically fit and active for at least half a hour three to five times a week. Even people I know that already have Type II Diabetes will use their insulin shots as an excuse to eat deserts and unhealthy carbohydrates during a meal. This is absurd given this type of research proving that lifestyle to be directly correlated with an increased risk of Type II Diabetes.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8330077.stm
2 comments:
My father has diabetes and at one point I was at risk for it too because I was so overweight. Both my father and I changed out diets completely and both of us lost a combined weight of 60 pounds. I am no longer at risk but he still has diabetes. I believe if he would have watched his food a little better then he possible would not be diabetic, but he is doing a better job now.
Just keep working out!
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