Energy-reduced Mediterranean diet shows effectiveness at lowering diabetes risk

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An energy-reduced Mediterranean diet combined with exercise advice reduced diabetes risk over 6 years.

The intervention “represents a practical and sustainability strategy,” a researcher told Healio.

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An energy-reduced Mediterranean diet combined with physical activity greatly lowered the risk for diabetes in adults with overweight or obesity vs. a normal Mediterranean diet, a study showed.

“Clinicians should consider recommending this multidomain intervention approach for patients with overweight or obesity, particularly when conventional Mediterranean dietary advice alone has proven insufficient,” Jordi Salas-Salvadó, MD, PhD, a professor of nutrition at the University of Rovira i Virgili in Spain, told Healio . “We think that