FIT STUDY: Improved diet and exercise 'can prevent or delay diabetes'

I love how they come out with a new study saying the same thing every other week.Isn't it obvious by now that eating healthy and exercising has health benefits?In case you needed more evidence that you're not wasting your time at the gym, here'sanother study: Drinking less alcohol, eating more vegetables and exercising can delay or evenprevent the onset of diabetes, according to scientists. Diet and exercise reduced the incidence of diabetes by about 43 per cent over20 years among 577 high-risk Chinese adults, the researchers reported in the journalLancet. At the end of the 20 years, 80 per cent of those who changed what they ate andexercised more had diabetes, compared with 93 per cent who made no changes, said GuangweiLi of the China-Japan Friendship Hospital in Beijing and Ping Zhang at the U.S. Centrefor Disease Control and Prevention. SOURCE This weblog is sponsored by www.BeHollywoodFit.com.

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