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Diabetes affects more than one in 10 Americans, with the numbers projected to keep climbing. The chronic disease can mean frequent needle jabs to test blood sugar levels—and costly treatments. And there is still no cure in sight.
每10個美國人里有一個人就患有糖尿病，這個比例還在逐年增加。這種慢性疾病需要經常抽血檢測血糖含量，治療也花費不菲。而且現在還沒有治愈的方法。
But recently, researchers have found that a number of lifestyle factors up the odds of getting type 2 diabetes. These factors include obesity, a poor diet, lack of physical activity, cigarettes and too much alcohol.
但最近，研究人員發現幾種會增加II型糖尿病患病率的生活方式。包括肥胖、飲食不健康、缺少鍛煉、吸煙和酗酒。
So, how much can cutting out these vices lower the need for insulin injections in the future? A lot, says a study in the Annals of Internal Medicine.
那么，改變這些不良生活習慣能多大程度減少患糖尿病的機率呢？答案是會很大程度上減少患病機率，這項研究發表在最新的《內科學年報》上。
Researchers followed the health of more than 200,000 adults aged 50 to 71 over 11 years. The risk of developing diabetes over the study period was about 10 percent for men and 8 percent for women. But each healthful behavior—say, getting plenty of exercise—lowered the risk of developing diabetes by as much as 39 percent in women and 31 percent in men. The trick, of course, is to successfully motivate people to chance their current behavior in order to avoid a diabetic future.
研究人員在11年里，跟蹤調查了超過20萬50~71歲之間的成年人。在這一研究期間，男人罹患糖尿病的比率大約是10%，女人是8%。但一種健康的生活習慣，比如保持足夠的鍛煉，會減低女人患糖尿病機率的39%，男人患病機率的31%。當然，其中的訣竅就是讓人們改變他們的生活習慣，避免患上麻煩的糖尿病。
