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Healthy diet, exercise may benefit obese adults with diabetes

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diabeNew York : Healthy diet and routine physical exercise can help older overweight and obese adults gain benefits, reveals a study, adding it can improve glucose control, body composition, physical function and bone quality.

Diet and exercise, known to benefit patients with type 2 diabetes, are controversial treatments for older adults due to concerns over frailty and age-related loss of muscle mass.

“Type 2 diabetes is highly prevalent in older adults due to the physical inactivity associated with advancing age as well as the obesity epidemic,” said lead study author Alessandra Celli from Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas.

“Obesity worsens the metabolic and physical complications of aging that impair quality of life,” Celli added.

No specific guidance is available for effectively modifying the lifestyle of adults with diabetes who are 65 years of age and above.

Researchers examined the effects of behavioural weight-loss diet therapy and exercise training in older overweight and obese adults with type-2 diabetes.

Over the past six months, they have been randomly assigning volunteers between 65 and 85 years of age to receive either intensive or limited interventions.

Participants in the intensive intervention group attend 90-minute aerobic and resistance exercise classes three times a week as well as a diet class once a week where they learn healthier eating habits.

Control group participants are not given any exercise programme and receive only once-a-month diabetes educational sessions.

At the six-month mark, all study participants have preserved their lean body mass; but the intervention group’s body weight and fat mass have dropped more than the control group’s and the intervention group’s physical performance test and peak aerobic capacity have improved more.

Glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c), an indicator of blood glucose control, has improved more in the intervention group.

Trabecular bone score — a measure of bone texture that helps predict fracture risk — has improved among those receiving the intervention but not among the controls.

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Covid toll in Karnataka is a worrying sign for state government

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Even though Karnataka recorded the lowest number of Covid deaths in April since the virus struck first in 2020, the state is recording a rise in the positivity rate (1.50 per cent). Five people died from the Covid infections in April as per the statistics released by the state health department. In March, the positivity rate stood around 0.53 per cent. In the first week of April it came down to 0.38 per cent, second week registered 0.56 per cent, third week it rose to 0.79 per cent and by end of April the Covid positivity rate touched 1.19 per cent.

on an average 500 persons used to succumb everyday in the peak of Covid infection, as per the data. Health experts said that the mutated Coronavirus is losing its fierce characteristics as vaccination, better treatment facilities and awareness among the people have contributed to the lesser number of Covid deaths.

During the 4th and 6th of April two deaths were reported in Bengaluru, one in Gadag district on April 8, two deaths were reported from Belagavi and Vijayapura on April 30. The first Covid case was reported in the state in March 2020 and three Covid deaths were recorded in the month. In the following month 21 people became victims to the deadly virus, and May 2020 recorded 22 deaths. The death toll recorded everyday after May crossed three digits. However, the third wave, which started in January 2

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