The News:
Study: 15 minutes helps diabetics' health
By Katy Human The Denver Post
Article Last Updated: 01/29/2008 12:29:10 AM MST
Fifteen minutes — that's all it took to get overweight adults with diabetes to exercise more and begin to lose weight, a new study reports.... Type II diabetes is on the rise because of increasing obesity in the United States, according to the American Diabetes Association, which estimated that spending on diabetes treatment last year reached $116 billion. Jim Christian, director of the Pueblo Community Health Center and colleagues at the University of Colorado at Denver School of Medicine and Denver Health enrolled about 300 overweight adults with diabetes in a test program funded by the National Institutes of Health.
The Research:
Read the research behind this story in the Archives of Internal Medicine.
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