Exercise & Diabetes
Physical activity is like a “Secret Weapon” to help fight Diabetes. Regular exercise has special advantages to help manage your blood sugar levels. When you exercise, your muscles use glucose for energy. This reduces the amount of glucose in your blood.
Aerobic exercise helps your body use insulin better, makes your heart and bones strong, relieves stress, improves blood circulation, and reduces your risk for heart disease by lowering blood glucose and blood pressure and improving cholesterol levels.
Strength training (also called resistance training) makes your body more sensitive to insulin and can lower blood glucose. It helps to maintain and build strong muscles and bones, reducing your risk for osteoporosis and bone fractures.
Although aerobic activity & strength training helps in metabolism of sugars, but do you know adding a gentle flexibility routine to your exercise program can give you immense benefits?Stretching doesn’t tend to get as much attention & often viewed as a boring part of the exercise.
For those with diabetes, it is particularly important to stretch frequently. A common symptom of both type 1 and type 2 diabetes is limited flexibility within the joints, and joint pain, which can lead to limited mobility. This limited mobility can also affect balance and lead to falls and further complications. Stretching can help increase flexibility and limit joint pain for diabetics.
People who stretch reported less pain, better sleep and better cardiovascular health. These exercises make you feel happier, energetic and more positive, and should not feel exhausting and boring.
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