THURSDAY, Aug. 2 HealthDay News)--even modest weight loss can include the overweight and obese important health benefits worth a decade, according to new research.
Study included 3,000 people overweight impaired glucose tolerance--a condition of pre-diabetic--who demonstrated how to change their behavior instead of the recommended drugs.
Behavioral strategies used by participants to help them with everything turned on weight maintenance, reducing the amount they ate unhealthy food, kept in their home and increase their amount of physical activity.
Even modest weight loss--an average of 14 pounds--reduced the risk of type 2 diabetes by 58%. Weight loss and health benefits lasted for 10 years, even if the people regain the weight, "said study Author Rena Wing, a Professor of Psychiatry and human behavior at Brown University in Providence, R.I.
The test is scheduled for presentation Thursday at the American Psychological Association annual meeting in Orlando, Fla file.
"Help people find ways of changing their eating and activity behaviors and develop intervention other than medication to strengthen healthy lifestyles have made a huge difference in preventing one of the health problems in this country," Wing, who is also Director of the weight control and Diabetes Research Center at the Miriam Hospital in Providence, said in a news release.
"Weight loss of only 10 percent of body weight a person ... have also been shown the long-term impact on team sleep, sleep, hypertension and the quality of life and to release the decrease in mobility that occurs with age," she noted.
Wing is currently a study of 13 years 5000 people with type 2 diabetes to determine whether intensive behavioral intervention can reduce the risk of heart disease and heart.
"We want to show that behavior change not only creates healthier reduce risk factors for heart disease, but actually can make them live longer," she said.
Because the study was presented at the meeting of the medical data and conclusions should be seen as a preliminary to the time of publication in peer-reviewed Journal.
--Robert Preidt 
Copyright © 2012 HealthDay. All rights reserved. Source: American Psychological Association, news release, Aug. 2, 2012
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