insulin sensitivity

Researchers at the Cleveland clinic evaluated 15 obese people with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease‎ and observed that daily walks resulted in increased insulin sensitivity, and an improvement in their polyunsaturated lipid index (PUI), believed to be an indicator of liver health.

Jacob M. Haus, Ph.D., research fellow in the Department of Pathobiology at the Cleveland clinic’s Lerner Research Institute, pointed to an increase in adiponectin associated with the body’s insulin response and with lowering of heart attack risk.

The walk program

According to researchers, simply walking 10,000 steps daily not only lowers body mass index (BMI), but also enhances a person's insulin sensitivity and lowers diabetes risk.

Link between walking and diabetes risk explored
In order to assess the link between daily step count and diabetes risk, the researchers at Murdoch Children’s Research Institute in Melbourne conducted a study.

For the purpose of the study, they analyzed data of 592 middle-aged adults who took part in a study to gauge diabetes rates across Australia between 2000 and 2005.

According to the findings of a new study, new moms who breastfeed for a month run a lower risk of developing type-2 diabetes vis-à-vis those who do not breastfeed at all.

The biological process that triggers during lactation increases sensitivity to insulin and reduces the formation of belly fat, researchers reasoned.

Details of the study
For the purpose of the study, researchers reviewed previously collected data of 2,233 Californian women aged between 40 and 78 years. 461 women had previously diagnosed type 2 diabetes.