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The findings were published online in Archives of Internal ysl shoes sale  Medicine.

Lead author Anders Grøntved, visiting researcher in the Department of Nutrition at HSPH and a doctoral student in exercise epidemiology at the University of Southern Denmark, said: "Until now, previous studies have reported that aerobic exercise is of major importance for type 2 diabetes prevention.

"But many people have difficulty engaging in or adhering to aerobic exercise. yves saint laurent outlet These new results suggest that weight training, to a large extent, can serve as an alternative to aerobic exercise for type 2 diabetes prevention."

The participants were asked to fill in questionnaires every two years on their lifestyle and other factors such as television viewing, alcohol consumption, yves saint laurent shoes  other exercise and family history of diabetes were taken into account.

The researchers found men who did between 1 and 59 minutes of weight training per week reduced their risk of type 2 diabetes by 12 per cent compared with those who did none.

For those completing between 60 and 149 minutes their risk was cut by yves saint laurent 2012 a quarter and those doing the most, at least 150 minutes reduced their risk by a third.