A rent study published in the June 20 issue of Diabetes Care found that in people who are at risk for getting diabetes, those who walked the most were less likely to get diabetes than those who walked the least. Native Americans are at high risk for diabetes. 243 Native Americans from Arizona, Oklahoma, and North and South Dakota were the subjects of this study. They wore pedometers for a week and were then followed for 5 years. Those who walked more than 7,800 steps per day were less likely to get diabetes than those who walked less than 3,500 steps per day. An obvious weakness of this study is that a lot can change in the course of 5 years, so the one week of monitoring may or may not be representative.
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