Health aNd Fitness Guide

Lifestyle changes like having more vegetables, avoiding alcohol, and exercising regularly can delay onset of diabetes for years, reports journal Lancet. Researchers in China divided 577 people with high risk of diabetes into four groups: one group focused on diet, another on exercise and the third on both; the fourth did not make any lifestyle changes. Over 20 years, diet and exercise together reduced the incidence of diabetes in the participants by 43 per cent. While 93 per cent of those who did not make any changes had diabetes, only 80 per cent of those on diet and exercise had diabetes.