Effective measures against type 2 diabetes

AOK study: Effective measures against diabetes type 2: In a Germany-wide multi-year study by the health insurance AOK Schleswig-Holstein and the University Hospital Eppendorf (UKE), it was found that there is an association between abdominal circumference and diabetes and confirmed effective countermeasures against the symptoms.

In a Germany-wide multi-year study by the health insurance AOK Schleswig-Holstein and the University Hospital Eppendorf (UKE), it was found that there is a connection between abdominal circumference and diabetes and confirmed effective countermeasures against the symptoms. 300 employees from five companies participated in the study. The researchers from the UKE, led by Professor Eberhard Windler, found that there is an increased risk of type 2 diabetes in women over 80 centimeters and in men over 94 centimeters in circumference.

Participants should eat fewer animal fats for the study over a three-year period, move for at least half an hour daily and reduce body weight by an average of five percent. The subsequent review found that none of the 240 participants in the risk group had diabetes. Of the eight people in the group who already had diabetes, half of the diabetes was gone.

One of the reasons for the results is certainly that with decreasing body weight and fat content in the organism sugar can be better brought into the cells. The increasing sedentary jobs and consequent lack of exercise are likely to be a major contributing factor here. Since a diabetic patient costs about 4,000 euros annually, the AOK now wants to use the findings of the study and carry out the measures, which are quite simple and inexpensive, in other companies. (Thorsten Fischer, Naturopath Osteopathy, 26.03.2010)

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