More your food comes closer of the Mediterranean diet, you run less risk to be reached of the of type 2 diabetes. It is what has led étude1 in Spain by 13 380 topics in health follow-ups during 4 to 6 years concludes.
The researchers of the university of Navarre first counted on average the food habits of participants of the aged 38 years. None among them suffered from diabetes and did not have a cardiac illness antecedent in the beginning of the survey.
According to the results, those and those that the more conformed to the principles of basis of the Mediterranean regime ran 83% less risk to be reached of diabetes of type 2 that the participants whom there adhered the less. This proportion was of 59% for those that followed in a moderate way the Cretan regime.
However, these data are based on a little raised percentage of people affected by diabetes. To the term of the survey, only 33 participants had received a diagnosis of diabetes of type 2. The researchers explain this weak result by the fact that the survey took place in a Mediterranean country where the regime is very current. Besides, the topics were all graduates of the university and generally anxious of their food.
The researchers themselves said the results of astonished joined to the reduction of the impact of the of type 2 diabetes. Of as much more that there was, in the group that followed the regime Cretan closely, people stronger proportion to risk, they specify. One recovered more aged people, a bigger number of former smokers and more of there more participants with domestic antecedents of diabetes.
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