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Diabetes is a chronic disease with many health consequences, being overweight is associated with type 2 diabetes. Obese people who lose weight, exercise and improve their diet can lower their risk of developing diabetes.
According to latest research, maintaining the same weight as you age may prevent diabetes, even in people who are moderately overweight.
We studied over 30,000 people aged 30 to 60 from Västerbotten county in northern Sweden. The participants had their weight and blood sugar measured on two occasions, ten years apart.
Based on the body mass index (BMI) of the participants, over a third of them were overweight and about a tenth were obese. We discovered that after ten years, one third of the people had maintained the same weight, just over half had gained weight and about a sixth had lost weight.
Comparing occurrence of newly diagnosed diabetes after 10 years in those who gained any weight to those who maintained their weight, we found that the risk of diabetes was considerably lower in those who maintained their weight.
These results show that diabetes can be prevented even in people who are moderately overweight.
