Cycling can significantly reduce Type 2 diabetes risk

Cycling can significantly reduce Type 2 diabetes risk
Cycling, often marked as a recreational activity, can significantly reduce the risk of developing Type 2 diabetes (T2D), if used as a means of transport to work daily, suggests a research.

‘We find it especially interesting that those who started cycling had a lower risk of Type 2 diabetes, given that the study population were men and women of middle and old age,’ Rasmussen added. In addition, the risk of developing T2D appeared to decrease with the time spent in cycling per week. For the study, the team included 24,623 men and 27,890 women from Denmark, between the ages of 50 and 65, and compared the association between self-reported recreational and commuter cycling habits with T2D incidence measured in the Danish National Diabetes Registry. It seems beneficial to encourage adults of middle and old age to engage in commuter and recreational cycling to prevent the development of T2D in late adulthood, said the paper published in the journal PLOS Medicine . (Read: Under high risk of Type 2 diabetes? Eat a plant-based diet)

Source: IANS

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