Achieving Total Wellness Now

A study started in the late 1990’s by the Diabetes Prevention Program of 3,200 people who were at risk for diabetes dramatically demonstrated the positive effect of exercise on delaying the onset of diabetes.

If you are overweight or obese and have a fasting blood sugar level of 95 mg/dL you are at risk of acquiring Type 2 diabetes, which is a fasting blood sugar level of 126 mg/dL or higher.

The people were divided into three groups.

1. The people in the intensive lifestyle group were encouraged to lose at least 7% of their body weight and to exercise for at least 2 ½ hours per week.
2. The drug group was given an oral diabetes drug twice a day.
3. The placebo group was given lookalike but inactive pills.

The study was stopped in 2001, a year earlier than planned because the results were so clear.  The risk of diabetes was 58% lower in the intensive lifestyle group than in the placebo.  The oral diabetes drug cut the risk by 31% versus the placebo group.

A follow-up study over the next six years showed that the people from the original intensive lifestyle group maintained their lower risk of diabetes from the original drug and placebo group.

How much proof do you want?  Lose that excess weight and get moving. 

{Note: This article was taken from the “Nutrition Action Health Letter” published by the nonprofit Center for Science in the Public Interest.}

Sincerely!

Joanne & Paul

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