Can the Mediterranean Diet Lower Your Diabetes Risk?
Eating a calorie reduced Mediterranean diet together with lifestyle changes can reduce the risk of developing type 2 diabetes by 31%.
Researchers in Spain found that following this eating pattern, participating in moderate exercise, and having professional weight loss guidance could be highly effective prevention tools against diabetes. The findings were published on August 26 in Annals of Internal Medicine.
“Diabetes is the first solid clinical outcome for which we have shown — using the strongest available evidence — that the Mediterranean diet with calorie reduction, physical activity and weight loss is a highly effective preventive tool,” Miguel Ángel Martínez-González, professor of Preventive Medicine and Public Health at the University of Navarra, adjunct professor of Nutrition at Harvard University, and one of the principal investigators of the project said in a press statement.
Excerpted from Healthline
