Can weight training prevent diabetes?
http://www.boston.com/dailydose/2012/08/07/can-weight-training-prevent-diabetes/u8dBg9XLWx85FUXpsru2nL/story.html
That’s what Harvard School of Public Health researchers found when they followed more than 32,000 men for nearly two decades: Those who reported doing 30 minutes a day of resistance training at the beginning of the study had a 34 percent decrease in their diabetes risk compared with those who didn’t exercise. Men who did 30 minutes a day of aerobic activity had a 52 percent lower risk of diabetes compared with couch potatoes, according to the study published Monday in the Archives of Internal Medicine.
The best form of exercise when it comes to diabetes prevention? Doing a combination of steady exercise and weight training for at least 30 minutes a day on most days of the week. Study participants who did both had nearly a 60 percent reduction in their diabetes risk.
An interesting statement by a doctor later…
I cannot help but note that none of the time I spend trying to decide whether to increase the dose or add a new medication for my patients with type 2 diabetes is likely to result in a 38 percent reduction in mortality
So, simply getting of your fat ass and engaging in moderate exercise can reduce your chance of dying (from all causes, not just diabetes) of 38%! Yet for some reason Americans seem to find this too much to bear.
I am not sure what it would take. Exercise in a pill, I guess, is the only way our country can keep from eating itself to death.
I guess in this one respect the meek won’t inherit the Earth. Though, now that I think of it, these meek can breed a hell of a lot before they die of trivial to prevent diseases, so maybe in addition to Idiocracy, life spans will shrink back to 35-40 (actually, what started out as a sarcastic joke strikes too close to home, I believe life expectancy in the US has actually shrunk in the last generation).
