Leading a healthy lifestyle may lower your risk for diabetes by as high as 80%. This is according to a research by the National Institutes of Health in the United States.

It is clear that exercise, diet, drinking, and smoking have an impact on the development of type II diabetes in individuals but the interplay between these factors is not so clear.

Experts looked into these lifestyle factors in a recent study conducted in the United States. The researchers found out that maintaining a normal weight lowers the chances of getting diabetes by 60 to 70%. A healthy diet reduces the potential of incurring diabetes by 15% while not smoking gets it down by around 20%.

The healthier the lifestyle is, the lower the chances of developing diabetes is. Reduction of the risks may reach as much as eighty percent.

The proponents of the study gathered date from 92,483 women and 114,996 men between the ages of 50 thru 71. None of the subjects had diabetes at the start of the research. About 9.6% of the male subjects developed diabetes while 75% of female subjects developed diabetes. The experts noted though that lifestyle factors played a good role of decreasing the risk of diabetes in male subjects by 31% and 39% in female subjects.

Doctors recommend to lead a healthy lifestyle at any point of your life. It is not too late to start, and any point is a good starting point. There will still be a lot of benefits including the lowered risk for diabetes.