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Diabetes and the Fishing Expedition Over the past few years, encouraging findings of several efforts in diabetes prevention have been released.1-4 Lifestyle programs composed of diet, physical activity, and weight loss have been shown to be an effective strategy to prevent type 2 diabetes.5,6 Most importantly, this decrease in diabetes development was found in all age and ethnic groups and in both men and women, as suggested by the findings of the Diabetes Prevention Program.1 The benefits of a physically active lifestyle certainly do not stop at diabetes prevention.