Exercising outdoors 'reduces diabetes risk'
30/10/2009 The risk of diabetes is cut when people exercise more, new research has found.
A new study, based on ten years worth of data, found that people who stuck to a healthy diet and consistent exercise outdoors over a decade cut their risk of diabetes by 34 per cent.
The study, carried out by US-based Diabetes Prevention Program Research Group followed a racially-diverse group of 3,234 overweight and obese adults, aged 25-85, with high blood glucose levels.
After ten years, the group that ate better and exercised delayed diabetes by about four years, while the metformin group delayed it by two years, researchers found.
The research, which has been sponsored by the National Institutes of Health, has been published in the latest issue of medical journal the Lancet.
According to the study, diet and exercise lowered the diabetes risk even more than the diabetes drug metformin, which reduced the rate of developing the disease by 18 per cent.
Figures from Diabetes UK show that there are currently over 2.5 million people with diabetes in the UK.
A new study, based on ten years worth of data, found that people who stuck to a healthy diet and consistent exercise outdoors over a decade cut their risk of diabetes by 34 per cent.
The study, carried out by US-based Diabetes Prevention Program Research Group followed a racially-diverse group of 3,234 overweight and obese adults, aged 25-85, with high blood glucose levels.
After ten years, the group that ate better and exercised delayed diabetes by about four years, while the metformin group delayed it by two years, researchers found.
The research, which has been sponsored by the National Institutes of Health, has been published in the latest issue of medical journal the Lancet.
According to the study, diet and exercise lowered the diabetes risk even more than the diabetes drug metformin, which reduced the rate of developing the disease by 18 per cent.
Figures from Diabetes UK show that there are currently over 2.5 million people with diabetes in the UK.
