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Preventing Diabetes

A healthy lifestyle can delay and even prevent diabetes, even if it is your family and you have inherited the 'diabetic' genes.

• Regular exercise such as swimming, cycling, or walking helps to delay or prevent diabetes: 30 minutes a day is the recommended minimum, but 90 minutes a day is needed to loose weight.
• A healthy diet helps to delay or prevent diabetes.
• Smoking is harmful; it damages the arteries and can double the problems that diabetes can itself cause.
• Smoking doubles the risk of developing type 2 diabetes. Even passive smoking increase the risk.
• For the relations of type 2 diabetics, the World Health Organisation recommends a fasting blood sugar test every 3 years.
• Stress increases the risk of diabetes
• Keep you blood pressure down. Risks increase above the level 115/65

Reference: http://medweb.bham.ac.uk/easdec/prevention/diabetes_and_the_family.htm

Above are some of the main points to be looked at to prevent the lethal condition of diabetes.