Exercise in controlling diabetes:
While performing exercise regularly ,Insulin sensitivity is increased, so your muscle cells are better able to use any available insulin to take up glucose during and after activity.
When your muscles contract during physical activity, your cells are able to take up glucose and use it for energy whether insulin is available or not.
New studies found that exercising 30 minutes a day reduces your risk of diabetes by 25 percent, and walking for 10 minutes after meals lowers your blood sugar by 22 percent.
Exercise helps manage prediabetes and Type II diabetes by lowering blood glucose levels and improving insulin sensitivity throughout the body. An immediate benefit of exercise is lowering excessively high blood sugar levels, Dr. Kazlauskaite says.
Several previous studies have shown that regular exercise training can significantly reduce the values of HbA1c. According to a meta- analysis, chronic hyperglycemia is associated with an increased risk for cardiovascular disease among adults with diabetes adults.
The best time to exercise for diabetics:
Those with Type II diabetes are supposed to keep levels at 160 mg/dl within two hours of a meal. Because exercising reduces blood glucose concentrations, it's a good idea to start exercising about 30 minutes after the beginning of a meal, researchers concluded.
If you have diabetes, being active makes your body more sensitive to insulin (the hormone that allows cells in your body to use blood sugar for energy), which helps manage your diabetes.
Physical activity also helps control blood sugar levels and lowers your risk of heart disease and nerve damage.
The clinical trial proved that a half hour of walking or other low-intensity exercise daily, combined with a low-fat diet, reduced the risk of developing Type II diabetes by 58 percent.
Very strenuous activity, heavy lifting or straining and isometric exercise must be avoided by diabetic.Most moderate activity such as walking, moderate lifting, weight lifting with light weights and high repetitions, stretching are recommended for diabetics.
Exercise you do need to prevent diabetes:
On today's Health Minute, endocrinologist Dr.Tim Graham talks about why as little as 150 minutes of exercise per week may be all you need to help prevent diabetes.
Aerobic exercise to Reverse Diabetes:
Aerobic exercise improves insulin resistance and helps lower blood sugar, and is one of the most effective ways to reverse prediabetes.
You still get diabetes if you exercise:
Genetics is the largest factor affecting whether you are going to develop diabetes. If you have a very strong family history of diabetes, it may be difficult for you to prevent the development of diabetes altogether.
One can develop diabetes even if exercises and eats a healthy diet.
Fit people also get diabetes:
No matter how thin you are, you can still get Type 2 diabetes. Here's what to know. People often assume that if you're skinny, you're healthy people only get diabetes if they're overweight.
Making positive lifestyle changes such as eating a well-balanced diet, exercising regularly and getting down to a healthy weight (and maintaining it) are the key to possibly reversing or managing Type II diabetes.
Lack of exercise can cause diabetes:
Not getting enough physical activity can raise a person's risk of developing Type II diabetes. Physical activity helps control blood sugar (glucose), weight, and blood pressure and helps raise “good” cholesterol and lower “bad” cholesterol.
One can control Type II diabetes without medication.
Ways to manage Diabetes without Medication:
•Eat a healthy diet. Choose to eat more whole fruits and vegetables, more whole grains and lean proteins.
•Lose weight.
•Exercise.
Make a commitment to exercising regularly by finding a partner.
•Test your blood sugar.
•Get enough quality sleep.
•Getting regular checkups.
Exercise and Type I diabetes:
You can exercise and do sports if you have Type I diabetes. You'll just have to take some extra steps to make sure you do it safely. Exercise and sport can affect your blood glucose levels. Depending on the type of activity you do, it may cause your blood glucose levels to rise (hyperglycaemia) or drop (hypoglycaemia).
Effect of exercise on Type I diabetes:
Exercise makes it easier to control your blood glucose (blood sugar) level. Exercise benefits people with Type I because it increases your insulin sensitivity. In other words, after exercise, your body doesn't need as much insulin to process the carbohydrates.
The best exercise for Type I diabetes:
The ADA encourages adults with Type I diabetes to complete two to three sessions of resistance activities per week. Resistance activities include: muscle-strengthening workouts, such as weight lifting. resistance band exercises.
Exercise needed by Type I diabetic :
The goal is to get at least 150 minutes per week of moderate-intensity physical activity. One way to do this is to try to fit in at least 20 to 25 minutes of activity every day. Also, on two or more days a week, include activities that work all major muscle groups (legs, hips, back, abdomen, chest, shoulders, and arms).
Diabetes Type I is less common, and it develops when a person's body does not produce insulin at all. Diabetes Type I patients mainly rely on insulin therapy to manage their blood sugar levels. It is a lesser-known fact that diet and exercise can reverse diabetes Type I like diabetes Type II and gestational diabetes.
Stop exercising if: Your blood sugar is 70 mg/dL (3.9 mmol/L) or lower. You feel shaky, weak or confused.
Information compiled by:
Dr. Bhairavsinh Raol
