Researchers have documented that people with diabetes can keep up the diet and physical activity standards they should meet. Scientists at 16 centers examined four years of data on more than 5,100 people. All went to meetings. Those in one group got education about diet and physical activity. Those in another were taught behavioral strategies for changing their diet and physical activity.
At Brown University, researcher Rena Wing:
"This combination of changing diet and physical activity has been very helpful in producing not only short-term weight losses, but also sustaining these weight losses through four years.’’
The study in Archives of Internal Medicine was supported by the National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
