A study of the University of Navarra suggests that the Mediterraneanper diem expenses can mitigate the adverse effects of obesity on the incidence of Diabetes Mellitus subject 2 (DM2). This is the conclusion of the work carried out by Sonia Eguaras, of the Navarra Health Service, under the direction of Miguel Ángel Martínez-González, director of Preventive Medicine and Public Health of the School of Medicine of the University of Navarra and researcher of the Center for Biomedical research at network of the Physiopathology of Obesity and Nutrition.

per diem expenses subject The research, degree scroll 'May the Mediterranean diet attenuate the risk of type 2 diabetes associated with obesity?', has been published in the British Journal Nutrition.

The study is part of the project Seguimiento Universidad de Navarra (SUN) in which 18,225 people, initially free of diabetes, have been analyzed during a average of nine and a half years. The study participants have an age average of 38 years and are mostly women (61%).

During this time, their dietary intake was assessed according to a 136-item semi-quantitative food frequency questionnaire with the goal to score their adherence to the Mediterranean per diem expenses from 0 to 9. After the elapsed period, 136 incident cases of diabetes were confirmed. The results of the study show that obese or overweight people are at an increased risk of developing diabetes if they do not follow a Mediterranean diet per diem expenses . The study therefore concludes that greater adherence to the Mediterranean per diem expenses may attenuate the risk of obesity for developing diabetes in the future.