WASHINGTON — Keeping focused on the present, rather than聽dwelling on the past or聽worrying聽about the future, might help you to avoid diabetes, a .
Mindfulness can be measured. There’s a聽 measuring how aware you are of what you’re experiencing right now.
And the more mindful you are, the more likely you are to have聽,聽according to a Brown University study involving 399 participants.
Researchers say the study findings show an association and do not prove a cause, but they have ideas about what might be going on:聽Perhaps people who are more mindful have better control over their actions, and are better able to motivate themselves to exercise and to resist a high-fat, high-sugar diet.
The study adjusted for a comprehensive list of physical and demographic factors, but found聽people with high levels of mindfulness were about 20 percent less likely to have type-2 diabetes.
Researchers caution, however, that the number of study participants may have been too small “to allow for definitive findings.”
