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Maintaining a healthy weight and exercising regularly lowers the risk of developing type 2 diabetes in individuals with pre-diabetes.
If you have been told you have pre-diabetes, your best defense is to maintain a healthy weight and stay physically active. This combination is proven to lower your risk of progressing to full-blown type 2 diabetes.
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Keeping your weight in the healthy range and exercising regularly will lower your chances of developing diabetes.
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The source is a comprehensive guide from the American Diabetes Association, representing established clinical consensus, though it lacks specific statistical effect sizes in this excerpt.
Source
Diabetes
David M. Nathan · JAMA · 2015
DOI 10.1001/jama.2015.9536
book_chapterCited 384×
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