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Many researchers believe that lifestyle modification programs addressing type 2 diabetes suffer from the serious defect of poor long-term compliance.<\/p>\nMany researchers believe that lifestyle modification programs addressing type 2 diabetes suffer from the serious defect of poor long-term compliance.<\/p>\n
They believe that people adhere to the new lifestyle changes only at the beginning, but later lapse back into their old ways because of a lack of self-discipline, commitment, time, energy, or whatever other obstacles real life puts in their way.<\/p>\n
A recent study, however, suggests that this view may be unnecessarily pessimistic.<\/p>\n
The American Journal of Preventive Medicine<\/em> has just published a study by researchers from the University of Pittsburgh debunking the assumption that natural solutions to cure type 2 diabetes are only temporary fixes.<\/p>\n The scientists looked at physical activity levels of people who participated in the Diabetes Prevention Program in 2002, finding that even over a decade later, they were still physically up to twice as active as the general population..<\/p>\n In 2002, American researchers implemented the Diabetes Prevention Program on a large number of relatively healthy subjects to assess which factors prevented diabetes the best.<\/p>\n They encouraged the participants to do only 3 things: <\/p>\n – reduce their body weight 7%<\/p>\n – reduce their fat intake to less than 25% of calories they consumed <\/p>\n – engage in 150 minutes of moderate intensity physical activity per week.<\/p>\n What they found was that people who lost a modest amount of weight together with physical exercise were 58% more likely to avoid diabetes than those who didn\u2019t, and were almost twice as likely to avoid diabetes as those taking metformin.<\/p>\n That is, 150 minutes of moderate intensity weekly exercise together with moderate weight loss is better than drugs at preventing type 2 diabetes.<\/p>\n