Scientists have reported progress in therapy to reduce the risk of developing chronic disease most common and deadly as, diabetes, cardiovascular disease and cancer by 80 percent.
In some ways the report might sound redundant, but the treatment is called “taking care of himself” and is based on “not smoking, exercising regularly, eating a healthy diet and maintaining a healthy weight.
If smoking is allowed simply to prevent the possibility of lung cancer and a good amount of heart disease and just as eating right and exercising only brings benefits to all levels of health.
The pre-ta-gun is, What is new? But the key is in the cumulative protective effect provided by the four health factors. The research, published in the current issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, includes an assessment of over 23. 000 Germans and is part of a large European study in progress on lifestyle choices and disease.
A study by Michael Gurvan of the University of California, Santa Barbara, and his team, drew a remote Amazonian tribe in Bolivia is known as “Tsimane ‘, finding in them that no peripheral arterial disease increases with age in this population as opposed to risk factors found in industrialized countries, such as chronic inflammation and use of snuff.
The implication is that these risk factors become mortal only in the context of an unhealthy diet and an inactive lifestyle.
