from journal PLOS Medicine
Exercise is good for us. But one study
from Denmark shows how one form of
exercise is especially effective in
preventing type 2 diabetes. The study
recruited more than fifty thousand adults
to engage in habitual bicycling. Five years
later they were re-assessed. People who
took up habitual cycling during that time
were twenty percent less likely to have
type 2 diabetes than non-cyclists. Cycling
can be included as activity even for people
who lack time or resources to engage in
some other physical activities. Given that
the participants were between fifty and
sixty-five, the researchers wrote in a
special edition of the journal PLOS
Medicine that even when entering our
mature years, it is not too late to take up
cycling to lower the risk of chronic disease.