Modest changes in diet and activity can help lower the risk of type 2 diabetes in South Asian families, suggests study.
The three-year-old-Edinburgh University study monitored 171 people of
Indian and Pakistani background residing in Scotland, who were at high
risk of diabetes as shown by blood tests done at the beginning of the
trial, the BBC reported. Study participants were given advice by dieticians and offered
culturally-appropriate resources to help them manage their weight
through diet and exercise. At the same time, control groups received basic advice that was not culturally specific. Professor Raj Bhopal, from Edinburgh University's centre for population
health sciences, said that the differing approaches show that a more
family-centred strategy, in addition with culturally tailored lifestyle
advice, could produce significant benefits to people's health through
weight loss. The trial has been published in the journal Lancet Diabetes and Endocrinology.Source:Lancet Diabetes and Endocrinology.
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