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Lifestyle changes can prevent type-2 diabetes
Wednesday June 20, 2012 07:14:52 AM,
IANS
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Washington: Making
lifestyle changes can prevent type-2 diabetes, simply, effectively
and cheaply, a new study says.
Diabetes is a chronic and complex disease marked by high levels of
sugar in the blood that arise due to problems with the hormone
insulin, which regulates blood sugar levels. It is usually caused
by an inability to produce insulin (type 1) or an inability to
respond correctly to insulin (type 2).
The study involved 230 people in poor, urban neighbourhoods in the
San Francisco Bay Area cities. Contacted by phone about once a
month, half of them received specific dietary guidance and other
lifestyle counselling.
After six months, those who had received the counselling had on
average lost more weight, were consuming less fat, were eating
more fruits and vegetables and showed more improvements in
lowering in their blood triglycerides, a key risk measure for type
2 diabetes, the American Journal of Public Health reported.
"Diabetes is not something you are necessarily going to get just
because it runs in your family," said Alka Kanaya, associate
professor of medicine at the University of California, San
Francisco (UCSF) and senior study author. "It is very preventable,
and lifestyle changes can really impact the onset of diabetes."
"You can do something about it," said Anita Stewart, professor at
the UCSF Institute for Health & Aging and the Centre for Aging in
Diverse Communities, senior study co-author, according to a
university statement.
A major health concern in the US, diabetes of all types affect an
estimated 8.3 percent of the U.S. population -- some 25.8 million
Americans -- and cost U.S. taxpayers more than $200 billion
annually.
Previous studies have shown that counselling and other lifestyle
interventions are effective at preventing type 2 diabetes, but
those interventions have generally been designed for clinical
settings and include separate sessions with numerous health
professionals.
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