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Article: Exercise can help prevent diabetes, large study says
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- July 18, 1991
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Regular exercise can prevent the adult form of diabetes from
developing, particularly among those at greatest risk, suggests a new
study of nearly 6,000 middle-aged men.
While physicians have routinely recommended increased physical
activity for diabetics as one way to control the disease, the new
study provides the best evidence so far that exercise can actually
prevent the development of adult diabetes, or non-insulin-dependent
diabetes, according to researchers.
Dr. Ralph S. Paffenbarger Jr., lead author of the study and
professor of epidemiology at the Stanford University School of
Medicine, said the finding means that adult diabetes now joins heart