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Mediterranean diet may trim diabetes risk |
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Older adults who stick with a traditional Mediterranean diet rich in plant-based fats may help lower their risk of type 2 diabetes—even without counting calories or shedding weight, new research hints.
In a study of 418 older Spanish adults, researchers found that those instructed to follow a Mediterranean diet were less likely to develop diabetes over four years than those instructed to follow a low-fat diet—about 10 percent developed the disease, versus 18 percent in the low-fat group. And weight loss did not appear necessary to gain the benefit.
The findings, reported in the journal Diabetes Care, may sound too good to be true.
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