Regular exercise can help your body respond better to insulin. Exercise and diabetes are closely related. In case of diabetes (both types) exercising can improve your circulation, especially in your arms and legs where people with diabetes generally have problems.

Exercise can lower glucose in blood level and possibly reduce the amount of medication (insulin) you need to treat type 1 and type 2 diabetes. Exercise can also help reduce your cholesterol and high blood pressure that can lead to a heart attack or stroke. If you are diabetic you are more prone to these ailments.

An exercise in diabetes also helps to reduce stress that can raise your glucose level. In some people exercises combined with a proper diet, can control Type 2 Diabetes without the need for medications (insulin). Aerobic exercise increases insulin sensitivity by decreasing body fat. It helps in increasing glucose uptake and storing by the muscles.

Any kind of physical activity that increases your heart rate for 20 to 30 minutes and if carried out on a regular basis will be beneficial. Walking is the most safe, valuable and convenient exercise for all kind of diabetics.

Depending upon a person’s abilities, many other types of exercises can burn calories and bring about health benefits. These include swimming, stationary bicycle riding, gardening etc. But before taking up any kind of vigorous exercises you should consult your doctor first.

Just medication (taking insulin) is not enough to help a diabetic live a full life. Both exercise and proper nutrition are essential to control diabetes. Exercise can help increase your life span and improve its quality. Often it seems easier to pop a pill or even take a shot than to put on your walking shoes and hit the trail. In fact sticking to an exercise program can be a challenge for anyone. But the fact is that a work out, in combination with healthy nutrition, is one of the best things to do to if you have diabetes.

However you must remember to measure your blood-glucose level prior to and after exercise. It is essential to closely monitor your blood glucose level when you have diabetes. Very often you will see the results instantly. You will see that the blood glucose level is at a healthy count after an exercise regime even though you had not taken the regular dose of insulin.

You should bring fun and diversity in your diabetic exercise regime, listening to music is a great idea. It keeps your mind away from the monotony of the job. Family support and exercising with someone is also helpful.

Juvenile diabetes is also known as Type1 diabetes. If the patient is a child or a young adult then the diabetes is categorized as juvenile or type I diabetes. It is generally found in girls and boys who are of 14 years old.

We all consume sugar. This sugar or glucose is converted by our body into energy by our body. A hormone called insulin is required to convert it. In juvenile or type 1 diabetes the body stops producing insulin. Diabetes is caused when the pancreas stop producing insulin. Earlier it was called only Juvenile Diabetes but now it is called Type 1 diabetes.

When the body fails to produce sufficient insulin and the sugar or glucose in the blood goes up then the doctors diagnose the condition as Diabetes Mellitus. They use the full form of the word Diabetes Mellitus to distinguish it from Diabetes Insipidus, which is an extremely rare disease. Diabetes may lead to blindness, kidney damage or nerve damage but it happens only if the patient becomes highly diabetic.

Statistics for diabetes point out the fact that around 13,000 new cases of Type 1 diabetes are detected each year in the US alone. About 5%-10% of diabetics suffer from Type 1 diabetes. Juvenile Diabetes generally happens to teenagers and young adults but can occur at any age. Just because you are in late 20s or 30s it doesn’t mean that Type 1 diabetes cannot happen to you.

Some of the signs and symptoms of Diabetes Type 1 are that you always feel like passing urine and are always very thirsty and hungry. In spite of being hungry, you suffer from weight loss and are always tired. This makes you very irritable. If you happen to experience all this you must consult your doctor immediately.

The long term permanent cure for diabetes is pancreas transplant. But it is hardly ever done. There are too many risks involved with it.

The side effect of pancreas transplant is very severe. You have to take suppressants through out your life and they are very strong drugs. Their side effects may be worse than the diabetes itself. Statistics on diabetes type 1 show that about 2% of the people die within a year of transplant and nearly 50% of the new pancreas is rejected by the body.

Hence doctors recommend that you manage your diabetes with insulin. The diabetic patients have to take insulin to cover the short production of insulin by their pancreas and support it with a healthy lifestyle of exercise and diet control.