Only 80 minutes of
exercise a week can
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cise and wh
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e less lik
to ha
ve an early diagnosis.
Men more likely to fact that women go to their GP
have undiagnosed more often and are therefore
diabetes screened more often. There
Men are more likely than needs to be much greater testing
women to have diabetes without of overweight and obese people,
knowing it, a study of nearly as well as those with other risk
7,000 over-50s in the UK has factors for diabetes.’ The
found. A total of 502 participants research was published in the
were found to have diabetes. Of journal Diabetic Medicine.
the men with diabetes, 22 per
cent didn’t know they had it; for Shifting the fat
women, the figure was 12 per As little as 80 minutes of exercise
cent. The longer diabetes is left a week not only helps prevent
untreated, the higher the risk of weight gain, but stops people
developing serious complications regaining harmful visceral fat
like heart attacks, strokes or after weight loss. So say US has, the greater their chances of exercise was sufficient to
kidney damage. scientists from the University of of developing diabetes and prevent visceral fat gain.’
Mary Pierce of University Alabama at Birmingham, writing heart disease. The researchers
College London, lead author of in the journal Obesity. randomly assigned 97 women to Glucose going down
the study, says: ‘The higher Visceral fat lies in the three groups: aerobic training, the pan
numbers of men with abdominal cavity and often resistance training, or no People with diabetes may soon
undiagnosed diabetes in this surrounds vital organs. The exercise. All participants were be able to get rid of excess blood
study may be explained by the more visceral fat a person placed on an 800 calorie-a-day glucose in the most natural way
diet, and lost an average 24 in the world – down the toilet!
pounds. Afterwards, participants At least two drug companies are
in the two exercise groups were developing diabetes treatments
asked to continue exercising for that work by making the kidneys
40 minutes twice a week for a pass more glucose into the urine.
whole year.
‘Those who continued
exercising, despite modest weight
regains, regained zero per cent
visceral fat a year after they lost
the weight,’ explains team leader
Gary Hunter. ‘But those who
stopped exercising, and those
who weren’t put on any exercise
regimen at all, averaged about a
33 per cent increase in visceral
fat. It’s encouraging, however,
Above: Men are much less likely to have diabetes diagnosed early. that this relatively small amount SHUTTERSTOCK
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