Increasing physical activity and limiting television may lead to reduction in type 2 diabetes

Monday, December 8, 2008 - 12:18 in Health & Medicine

Researchers from Boston University's Slone Epidemiology Center have found that reducing time spent watching television and increasing time spent walking briskly or engaged in vigorous physical activity may reduce the incidence of type 2 diabetes in African-American women. These findings appear on-line in the American Journal of Epidemiology.

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