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If you have prediabetes, how to prevent diabetes through exercise?
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Lifestyle change: A healthy diet is essential to lifestyle modifications which would also include exercise and quality sleep. This is all part of making the necessary changes to avoid progressing to diabetes. Please discuss with your doctor.
Answered 8/3/2012
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Daily 10-20 min walk: Will help reduce risk, but most important is to get ris of sweets/ simple carbohydrates.
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