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Study Finds Fast Walking May Lower Type 2 Diabetes Risk By Nearly 40%

www.prevention.com Adding This Simple Exercise to Your Routine Cuts Type 2 Diabetes Risk By Nearly 40%

Research explains what to know about the effective workout—and there’s no equipment involved.

Adding This Simple Exercise to Your Routine Cuts Type 2 Diabetes Risk By Nearly 40%

About one in 10 Americans have diabetes and, of those, up to 95% have type 2 diabetes, making this an incredibly common condition. While there are certain risk factors for developing the disease that you can’t control, like genetics, there are some things you can do to lower the odds you’ll develop it. New research finds brisk, or fast, walking may lower your risk of developing type 2 diabetes.

That’s the main takeaway from a new meta-analysis published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine. For the analysis, researchers crunched data from 10 studies conducted between 1999 and 2022 that looked at walking speed and the development of type 2 diabetes in adults in the U.S., U.K., and Japan.

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