This lifestyle will protect women from diabetes

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Researchers found that even in the presence of gestational diabetes women can protect themselves from another form of this disease in the future during a healthy lifestyle. It includes proper nutrition, quitting smoking, sports and fighting excess weight.

Gestational diabetes is a disease that affects a significant number of pregnant women. After childbirth, the symptoms of diabetes in women, as a rule, disappear, but these representatives of the fair sex have an increased risk of further development of type 2 diabetes. And now, scientists from the University of Washington found that this risk can be significantly reduced if women who have suffered gestational diabetes follow 5 basic principles of a healthy lifestyle.

These include a healthy weight, proper nutrition, and regular physical activity. , moderate alcohol consumption and smoking cessation. By following all these 5 points, the risk of developing type 2 diabetes is reduced by 90%, compared to women who did not follow at least one of these rules. It is well known that a healthy lifestyle in itself is associated with a lower risk of type 2 diabetes in generally healthy middle-aged people.

However, less is known about whether this also applies to women from high history of gestational diabetes risk, and whether obesity or genetic risk for type 2 diabetes influences this association. Now it has been proven that even those who suffered gestational diabetes and have a genetic probability of developing type 2 diabetes, women are still almost completely protected from it by maintaining a healthy image.