Lifestyle changes can have quite a positive impact on the life of a person. Being overweight or obese in itself is a serious health issue and it gets even more serious when it gives rise to several other diseases. Diseases like cardiovascular diseases, hypertension, diabetes, and certain types of cancer can all be a by-product of obesity proving fatal to the life of an individual.
Now the Diabetes Prevention society has come up with another added benefit of weight loss. Losing a modest amount of weight along with some dietary changes and increased physical activity can be effective in improving the bladder control in women, better known as urinary incontinence. Urinary incontinence is actually the involuntary leakage of urine or the inability to control the passing of urine.
The Diabetes Prevention Society has revealed that lifestyle changes like losing weight can reduce the occurrence of urinary incontinence in women who are pre-diabetic, that is, their glucose levels in blood are more than the normal range but can not be yet termed as diabetic.
If a lady reduces 5% to 7% of her weight through diet and keeps her daily physical activity consistently high, for example walks for 30 minutes regularly for minimum 5 days in a week, showed a significant deal of reduction in the onset of type2 diabetes to the tune of 58%. The clinical study undertaken by the Diabetes Prevention Society was funded by the National Institute of Health.
According to the Director of the National Institute of Health, Elias A. Zerhouni, the only thing that the Americans need to know for checking their problem of obesity and diabetes is to acknowledge the proven benefits of losing weight and following it by lessening the calorie intake and increasing the physical activity.
According to the clinical study undertaken by the Diabetes Prevention Society, total 3,234 women were randomly selected aged 50 years, who were overweight or obese with an average body mass index of 35 and a height of 5'4" with a weight of 204 pounds. Out of this number, 660 women were randomly selected and assigned to an intense change in lifestyle, 636 women were given the oral drug for Diabetes, Metaformin and 661 ladies were placed on placebo.
Women who were assigned to intense lifestyle changes in the form of a monitored healthy diet and an increased physical activity, reported to have lost 5% to 7% weight. What was noticeable was that, these women who had lost weight due to lifestyle changes had fewer episodes of urinary incontinence as compared to those who were on the Diabetic drug Metaformin, or the ones who were on placebo.
More than 13 million women in the US , who are middle-aged or older in age, report the involuntary urine leakage due to loss of bladder control. Overweight women who also suffer from type2 diabetes have a 50-70% increased chance of suffering from urinary incontinence. But a better lifestyle of following a nutritional diet with less of calorie intake and increased physical activity can significantly benefit in the condition of urinary incontinence, especially stress incontinence, a type of urinary incontinence. |
