It sits alongside the DASH diet as one of the few dietary patterns with a consistent evidence base behind it. Here's what a 2025 meta-analysis found when it measured the Mediterranean diet's actual effect on blood sugar, insulin resistance and waist circumference.
Six hours of brisk walking a week sounds like a lot — until you see it translates to just over 30% lower diabetes risk in dose-response research. Here's how MET values work, and how much activity actually moves the needle.
Diet and exercise combined can cut diabetes risk by more than half in some groups. Here are eight strategies backed by measured odds ratios and risk-reduction figures, pulled together into one practical list.
Diabetes risk factors aren't limited to diet and body weight — what you breathe matters too. Here's the dose-response data on cigarettes and on ambient air pollution, and why both follow the same "more exposure, more risk" pattern.
Roughly six in ten people with type 2 diabetes also have a lipid disorder — and the figure climbs to over 93% when blood sugar is poorly controlled. Here's how the two conditions are connected, and what the reference ranges actually mean.
Not all calories carry the same diabetes risk. Two large meta-analyses put actual numbers on which foods push risk up and which pull it down — and the effective dose matters as much as the food itself.