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Article: Women Who Eat a Healthy Diet Can Lower Diabetes Risk, Study Led by Simmons College Shows
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- U.S. Newswire
- Article date:
- June 29, 2007
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To: MEDICAL EDITORS
Contact: Stacy Wong of Simmons College, o: +1-617-521-2393; cell:
+1-860-805-2472, stacy.wong@simmons.edu
BOSTON, June 29 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Women who eat an
overall healthy diet can significantly lower their risk of developing
diabetes, and the benefit of the better diet begins to show within
just a few years, according to a study the July issue of the journal
Diabetes Care, led by Professor Teresa Fung of the Simmons College
School for Health Studies in Boston.
Type 2 diabetes, commonly called adult onset diabetes, damages
nerves in the body and can lead to blindness, amputation, or death.