Newly Diagnosed with Diabetes?

Here’s an interesting bit of research from BD Diabetes:

“People with diabetes given intensive drug treatment soon after diagnosis are healthier when they grow older, even if they become less rigorous about controlling their blood sugar later on.”

That means if you get diabetes (even Type 2) you should go on meds first rather than trying to control the disease with diet and exercise first. (Although you should still eat right and work out – there’s no avoiding that people!) The thing that I found very odd was that even if the patients were less rigorous with control when they were older, they still benefited from intensive treatment early on.