Is Exercise Important For Diabetics And Why
August 26, 2007 by Max Peykar
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Loading ...You have been stuck by diabetes. Well, honestly speaking, no matter what every one must be saying, you must keep reminding yourself that now the time has come when you have to live a disciplined, diet restricted and healthy life with healthy diet and work outs.
Now no more of binging into alcoholic drinks with friends and eating fast-food or junk food for you. Don’t worry, no one is asking you to live like a saint; nothing so drastic is really needed. All that you have to do is avoid recklessness. Well know diabetes is called the silent killer. So you have to ward off the attacks of this silent killer with discipline, combined with medication and exercises of course.
You must know that if you have diabetes it means your pancreas isn’t producing sufficient insulin hormone. Since they are not producing sufficient amount of it the glucose level in your blood goes up because it could not be converted into energy. This affects your body system and eventually you are diagnosed with diabetes. It is here that exercise plays a very important role for you. When you do exercises then there is increase in the blood circulation in the body which affects the sugar level in your blood stream.
When you have diabetes your arms and legs are the most affected parts of your body. Medical research has proved that in these two places the blood circulation is most affected by the variations in your blood glucose level.
In your type 1 and type 2 diabetes when the blood glucose is at high levels, exercise can lower it. As a consequence you have to take fewer medicines and accordingly the side affects which you have to face because of these medicines, are also reduced. The cholesterol level in your blood also goes down and the blood pressure is also controlled. Research has proved that if you have diabetes the chances of you getting a stroke or a heart attack are really high.
Aerobics exercises have been found to be very useful in reducing the fat in your body and these exercises are interesting too. It has been found that they help in the absorption of glucose by the body and also storing of energy in the muscles. Leave alone aerobics, even simple exercises like walking helps you tremendously. If you have the vigor for it then exercises such as bicycle riding, gardening and swimming can also be very helpful.
You see the basic idea is to make you work hard, to make you do some strenuous activity. When you exert pressure on you body and push it to perform better, it does, and for doing so it takes up more glucose which had been lying dormant.
If you want to live a better and fruitful life in spite of suffering from diabetes you must start exercising today, you will see that you feel better and the overall quality of your life has improved. Thus exercise and diabetes are closely linked and go hand in hand. Leave out one and the other troubles you.
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