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Diet and exercise can delay diabetes
23 May 2008
Scientists have discovered that diet and fitness can play a large part in delaying the onset of diabetes.
In a report set to be published in medical journal The Lancet, the experts claimed that lifestyle could be a major factor in how early someone could get the disease.
The study, carried out over a 20 year period, looked at nearly 600 patients who were at high risk of being diagnosed with diabetes in later life.
It investigated whether encouraging people to change the way they ate, exercised and lived made any difference to the onset of the disease, which claims the lives of up to three million people annually across the globe.
Volunteers taking part in the study were split into four groups, one of which continued their lives as normal.
The second group relied on an improved diet, the third on exercise and the fourth on a combination of diet and exercise.
Results of the study revealed that the occurrence of diabetes was cut by 43 per cent in those people who had improved their eating habits and fitness.
"This study has shown that ... group-based interventions targeting lifestyle changes such as diet and exercise produce a durable and long-lasting reduction in incidence of type 2 diabetes," the report said.
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