r/science • u/calliope_kekule Professor | Social Science | Science Comm • 15h ago

Health A new 6-year trial finds that a calorie-reduced Mediterranean diet plus physical activity cut type 2 diabetes risk by 31% compared with a standard Mediterranean diet.

https://doi.org/10.7326/ANNALS-25-00388
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u/2wice 13h ago

Living healthy is healthy? Who knew!

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u/AllanfromWales1 MA | Natural Sciences | Metallurgy & Materials Science 12h ago

So eating less helps prevent type 2 diabetes?

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u/Hushchildta 35m ago

And exercising! More at 11

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u/GrinningStone 11h ago

Not exactly an exciting find but it's always good to have solid data to actually prove what is percieved as common knowledge.

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u/__RainbowLightning__ 1h ago

Study number 2378 proving that eating healthy and being active is good for you

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u/WheyTooMuchWeight 38m ago

I feel like we need to be reducing spending on this sort of research and focus on what factors actually convince people to improve their diets.

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u/OddballOliver 7h ago

Am I missing something? Why in the world would you do BOTH a changed diet AND physical activity at the same time? Surely you'd want to focus on one or the other, if nothing else then to at least just isolate the effects?

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u/NanquansCat749 2h ago

I don't see any issue with testing them simultaneously, as that's how you test interactions between factors.

However, given the scale of the study it does seem like a missed opportunity not to have divided up the groups more and tested factors both simultaneously and also individually. Not sure why they wouldn't have done that.