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October 24, 2007 | Issue 139 |
Living With Diabetes — "Exercise, diet work wonders,"Chicago Tribune Reports
“The idea of controlling diabetes through diet and exercise has gained importance,” began a feature article in the Chicago Tribune on October 9, 2007. “Research shows the most common form of diabetes, Type 2, can be controlled with diet and exercise alone and in some cases can even be reversed without diabetes medications.”
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Type 2 Diabetes Reversed
Chicago Tribune author Kathleen Louden then described a recently published study that found that a diet and exercise program at the Pritikin Longevity Center in Aventura, Florida, reversed Type 2 diabetes in just three weeks in half the men studied.
In that Pritikin study, the Chicago Tribune article reported, “the men who succeeded no longer met the blood-sugar criteria for having diabetes or needed diabetes medication.”
Other research on the Pritikin Program has shown similar results. In one, published in the May 2006 Journal of Applied Physiology, Dr. Christian Roberts and colleagues at UCLA followed 31 overweight men, ages 46 to 76, during their three-week stay at the Pritikin Longevity Center.
Half the men had the metabolic syndrome; the other half had Type 2 diabetes, or both diabetes and the metabolic syndrome.
Metabolic syndrome, a disorder now reaching epidemic numbers worldwide, consists of a cluster of problems, including abdominal obesity, high triglycerides, low HDL “good” cholesterol, high blood pressure, and elevated fasting blood sugar. Having the syndrome puts one at major risk for diabetes and heart disease.
In just three weeks of diet and exercise therapy at Pritikin, the men’s health improved dramatically. In about 50% of the men, the Pritikin Program reversed the clinical diagnosis of Type 2 diabetes and metabolic syndrome.
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Pritikin Perspective - Healthy Living Made Easier
Pritikin Perspective is a publication for Alumni of the Pritikin Longevity Center. It is dedicated to helping people make healthy changes in their lives. The articles in this publication should not be considered specific medical advice, as each individual circumstance is different. You are strongly encouraged to seek medical advice before beginning a program of diet and exercise.
Editor/Writer: Eugenia Killoran.
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