You would be prepared, one of the aspects of your life - such as healthy eating and exercise more, if you knew that it would reduce the risk to change the development of diabetes? Do two, three or five changes in the lifestyle to reduce these opportunities even more would you?
Every little bit helps, suggests a new study by the Government. One of the five main of health reduces your chances of developing diabetes in the middle ages by a third, which appreciates study, and the most goals that occur less is your risk, also if you a family history of diabetes.
Doctors, of course know the bad habits like smoking since long, to drink too much or eating unhealthy foods increases the likelihood of an array of chronic diseases, including type 2 diabetes to develop. But the new study – the largest of its kind of to date - is among the first to explore, how many healthy habits to combine to influence the risk of diabetes.
"The question that we is trying to increase when it benefits for any individual lifestyle improvement are added you make, and it seems that this answer is definitely Yes,"Jared said rice, PhD, lead author of the study and epidemiologist with the national heart, lung and Blood Institute, Bethesda, MD "The power of the Association was really very spectacular and rather surprising,"."."
Rice and his colleagues analyzed data from more than 200 000 men and women in eight States, in a study of long-term diet and health, that of cancer are carried out by the National Institute. In the 1990s, when they were age 50-71 and showed no signs of serious illness, study participants to detailed questionnaires on diet, lifestyle, medical history, features physical and demographic profile.
Ten years later, about 9% of men and women had developed diabetes. Those who are less likely share a diagnosis of diabetes these five features of health:
Normal weight. They were not overweight or obese, and maintains an index of body mass under 25 (a threshold is 155 pounds for a woman 5 feet 6 inches).
Non-smoking rooms. They were never smokers, or that they smoke have been free for at least 10 years.
Physically active. You at least 20 minutes, palpitations, inducing sweat exercise had three or more times a week.
Healthy food. You consumed a diet with plenty of fiber, low trans fat, easy, refined and sweet carbohydrate and a high ratio of good (saturated) fats (polyunsaturated) bad.
Easy drinking. You have alcohol in moderation consumed or not at all - two glasses or less per day for men and one drink or less for women.
Associated with each additional attribute is, on average, with 31% and 39% of the ratings below develop diabetes in men and women, respectively. People, that all five had meets standards around 80% of the lower ratings of a diagnosis of diabetes demographically similar people, healthy life, less according to the study led, which was published in the annals of internal medicine.
All five factors of lifestyle, obesity has been linked strongly, risk of diabetes. But with healthy for the four other factors still makes a difference in the set, the risks, regardless of whether a person a normal weight, was overweight or obese.
"It is not always easy to lose weight and keep these long-term weight loss," rice said. "This is good news for people, who have a difficult time, weight loss: you can still reduce your risk with these other changes in life.".
With studies concentrated on the questionnaire there is always a chance that exactly the participants report their behaviour, or that the results are distorted, are not included by factors of health and lifestyle, the researchers.
But in this case trade group, real population found in clinical trials - study - in contrast to the smaller, closely monitored groups in General might actually a resistance, said Robert Henry, MD, President of the medicine and science at the American Diabetes Association, an organization based in Alexandria, Virginia.
"This study focused on the factors that we know, can be easily modifiable and conditions as those, which in reality in real life to life", explains Dr. Henry, who is also Professor of Endocrinology and metabolism at the University of California - San Diego. "And it is facts might not for a situation of normal life better than some clinical trials with care."
The study also found that the maintenance of the five factors of lifestyle reduces risk of diabetes suggesting regardless of family history, that people with a genetic predisposition can still prevent or delay at least the outbreak of the disease.
"" "Some will say," I am to be overweight to any value have ", or I'm doomed, because diabetes runs in my family, but see us here, isn't it, is", explains Dr. Henry, who was not involved in the study. "Even if, even if you have a family history, this shows obese you, that there are real benefits for a healthy life."