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☆ Walking slightly faster may help lessen your risk for type 2 diabetes
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-29 | by ( ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

A faster walking speed is linked to lower risk of developing type 2 diabetes, per a new study. Researchers found a speed of 3.7 miles per hour was linked to nearly 40% lower risk. Walking at a brisk pace is linked to significantly lower risk of developing type 2 diabetes, according to a study published November 28 in the British Journal of Sports Medicine . They compared participants' walking speed with their odds of developing type 2 diabetes over an average of 8 years. Pick up the pace — walking at a speed about about 16 minutes per mile may boost the benefits.

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☆ Walking pace could impact diabetes risk, study finds
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-28 | by ( Kristen Rogers | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

Brisk walking is associated with a nearly 40% lower risk of developing type 2 diabetes later in life, according to the study published Tuesday in the British Journal of Sports Medicine. But prior findings haven’t offered much guidance on the optimal habitual walking speed needed to lower diabetes risk, and comprehensive reviews of the evidence are lacking, the authors said. Going a certain pace during your walk may help lower your type 2 diabetes risk, according to a new study. Walking at a “fairly brisk” pace meant a 24% lower risk than those who easily or casually walked. Each kilometer increase in walking speed above brisk was associated with a 9% lower risk of developing the disease.

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A three-year drought that has left millions of people in Syria, Iraq and Iran with little water wouldn’t have happened without human-caused climate change, a new study found. The team looked at temperatures, rainfall and moisture levels and compared what happened in the last three years to multiple computer simulations of the conditions in a world without human-caused climate change. “With every degree of warming Syria, Iraq and Iran will become even harder places to live.”Computer simulations didn’t find significant climate change fingerprints in the reduced rainfall, which was low but not too rare, Otto said. But evaporation of water in lakes, rivers, wetlands and soil “was much higher than it would have been’’ without climate change-spiked temperatures, she said. In addition to making near-normal water conditions into an extreme drought, study authors calculated that the drought conditions in Syria and Iraq are 25 times more likely because of climate change, and in Iran, 16 times more likely.

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