Five Important Lifestyle Habits can Reduce the Risk of Diabetes

A group of American scientists has identified five important lifestyle habits that could drastically reduce the risk of diabetes. Researchers from the National Institutes of Health led by Dr Jared Reis analyzed data from more than 200,000 men and women from eight different states in the United States and identified five lifestyle habits that could reduce the risk of diabetes by as much as 80 percent.

According to the researchers, the five major lifestyle habits that affect positively affect diabetes are non smoking, maintaining a normal weight, healthy diet, being physically active and not drinking too much alcohol.

The researchers added that each lifestyle habit had a benefit of its own so even an overweight person can reduce his risk of diabetes by following other healthy habits. “The question we were trying to raise is whether there are added benefits to each individual lifestyle improvement you make, and it looks like that answer is definitely yes. The strength of the association was really very dramatic and quite surprising”, Reis said.

Source-Medindia