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Mediterranean diet reduces diabetes risk, study shows
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A variety of foods, including vegetables, pistachios, avocado, fish, bread and oil.
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Nina Agrawal
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NEW YORK – Powerful new evidence suggests that following the Mediterranean diet while also cutting calories and increasing physical activity reduces the risk of Type 2 diabetes.
A large randomised trial in Spain found that older adults at risk of diabetes who followed that diet, reduced their caloric intake and exercised regularly were 31 per cent less likely to develop the disease after six years, compared with those who just followed the Mediterranean diet.
