Nutrition Update
Every month I get the Diabetes Forecast magazine. It always has some interesting articles on nutrition. The January/February and May/June 2016 issues have many interesting updates on nutrition and health. Here are a few. Sit Less, Move More. Can sitting increase your risk of developing Type 2 Diabetes? Apparently so. To study this researchers gave 2,497 adults 24 hour activity monitors. The 2,497 adults included 1,395 with normal glucose, 714 with type 2 diabetes, and 388 with prediabetes. Study participants were tracked for 8 days. The activity differences didn’t seem like much as those with Type 2 Diabetes sat 26 more minutes a day. Every hour sitting and not moving can increase your chances of developing type 2 diabetes by 22%. This doesn’t mean you have to run a marathon as study authors noted just standing up every hour helps. Watching TV, then stand up and walk around during ...