new YORK (Reuters Health) – losing weight and improving fitness

physics would protect the mobility problems common to the

older adults with overweight and type 2 diabetes.

In a new study, lifestyle changes helped

patients and patients with mobility to treasure

with severe mobility problems to reduce them, at least in

the short-term.

The main author, w. Jack Rejeski, of Wake Forest

University, in North Carolina, said that trends

demonstrates the importance of promoting the weight control and the

exercise as soon as possible, rather than waiting until

the problems.

In the study published in New England Journal of Medicine,

Rejeski team calculated that slimming the 1 per cent of the

body weight reduced more than 7 per cent the problems of

mobility. And 1 percent more physical fitness fell 1-2

percent that risk.

“if we can change enough lifestyle of

this population will have more and more mobility and, in time,

the effect on his life will be enormous”, thought Dr. Vivian

Fonseca, President of medicine and science of the Association

Diabetes (ADA), American

who did not participate in the study.

The ADA estimates that nearly 26 million Americans have

diabetes (most, type 2, which is the form that is more

associated with overweight) and 79 million more are at risk of

develop the disease. It is expected that these figures will increase

significantly in United States aging

population.

People with diabetes are twice as likely to have problems

mobility with age.

Rejeski team piloted a programme in which is

encouraged volunteers to lose weight more than 7 per cent of its

body weight and make at least three hours of exercise

physicist per week.

Another group of volunteers (control) attended three times in

a year group meetings on nutrition, physical activity and

orientation.

In total, more than 5,000 volunteers from among 45 participated

and 74 years with overweight or obesity. All reported on their

ability to move through various surveys during

four years. Also physical fitness test in

various moments in research.

Year, the participants treated with diet and exercise

they had lost 6 percent of the body weight compared

with less than 1 per cent in the control group.

15 Percent of the control group had serious problems

mobility at the beginning of the study and that figure grew to 19 by

% in a year and continued to rise in the three remaining years.

In the other group, 13 per cent had begun the

study with serious disorders of mobility and the year the

suffered 12 percent. Then, the possibility of having those

problems started to grow again.

Recover some lost weight, “but also

“”

they get older and start other problems”, said Fonseca,

the Tulane School of medicine endocrinóloga

University, in New Orleans.

El 33 per cent of the control group had begun the

Studio with a good level of mobility and the proportion remained stable

too much in the next few years.

On the other hand, in the group treated with diet and exercise, the

percentage with good mobility rose from 37 per cent initial

to 41 per cent in a year. Although then declined, never as

made below the initial share.

The team calculated that the change of the style of life reduced a

48 percent possibility of diabetics to lose the

ability to move.

Source: New England Journal of Medicine, online March 28

2012