Weight-loss regimen a preferred choice for countering diabetes

More doctors are prescribing the Diabetes Prevention Program, a 12-week regimen, to ward off Type 2 diabetes. It may be a crucial test of the Affordable Care Act's focus on preventive health.After all those well-intentioned New Year's resolutions have yielded to the force of habit, many of the nation's 79 million obese adults will have a day of reckoning with their primary care physicians.

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