Exercises for Diabetics
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Exercises for Diabetics
Lower Blood Sugar without Drugs
Exercises for Diabetics, according to what I've previously read, have been shown in studies to lower blood sugar as effectively as some diabetes medications. However, when I went looking for this factoid so I could document it here, I was unable to find it, so I'll have to do some more research before I can document that for you. I'm quite sure I have read it though.
In spite of this fact, in doing research for this page, one of the biggest cautions, and most frequently repeated for diabetics when exercising, is that they must be careful their blood sugar doesn't fall too low. So obviously, exercise will lower your blood sugar without any prescription medications involved. If you exercise with prescriptions, you run the risk of your blood sugar falling too low.
Exercises for Diabetics
Conventional Medical Wisdom
- Aerobic - This type of exercise uses the major muscle groups of the body for long enough to raise your heart rate and keep it up. Usually an half hour to forty-five minutes are recommended 3 to 5 days a week. Types of aerobic exercise are walking, jogging, swimming, and any other activity that raises your heart rate and keeps it up for at least a half hour or more at a time.
- Strength Training -This exercise is designed to strengthen muscles over time. It has two major benefits. The larger our strength reserves, the easier our daily lives will become, and additionally muscle tissue burns more calories than fat, so the larger our muscles, the less likely we'll be overweight.
- Flexibility Exercises -These exercises are more commonly known as stretches. They improve flexibility and balance.
These are the three types of exercise the American Diabetic Association recommends, and I would consider them a good example of conventional medicine's approach to exercises for diabetics.
Exercises for Diabetics
I certainly don't have a problem with any of the above types of exercise, and I've practiced each of them from time to time in my life. However, the difficulty I encountered is probably the one that makes it most likely that you won't consistently follow through with all three types of exercise, as a diabetic.
A Novel ApproachThey are very time consuming. To properly perform all three types on a consistent basis, you'll likely spend an hour or more at least five or six days a week. There are many people who plan to do this, but there aren't too many who regularly follow through. It isn't the exercise you plan that will lower your blood sugar, but that which you actually do!
So, I was thrilled when I came across an exercise plan by a Dr.named Al Sears, called PACE: Rediscover Your Native Fitness.
Dr. Sears is a cardiologist, and initially followed conventional medical wisdom in his exercise recomendations. But after years of working with patients, and studying how exercise affected their overall health, he came to the conclusion that there was a better form of exercise to improve, and maintain overall cardiovascular health, and enable weight loss.
He believes the key to improving health is found not in prolonged cardiovascular exercise, as recommended by aerobic proponents, but in exercising to capacity until winded and tired, and then resting until the body has a chance to recover. This is a short synopsis of his PACE approach to exercise.
There are two things that particularly impressed me about his approach. The first is that it only requires 12 to 20 minutes of time, about three times a week, and the second is that it doesn't lock you in to any particular form of exercise. His recommendations focus on the intensity of the workout, rather than on the duration.
After reading the book, his program is better thought out, and more sensible than most I've read, and due to the lower time commitment, I think it would be much easier to regularly accomplish. I'd highly recommend you read the book.
It is available from Amazon by clicking on the link to the left, or you could probably get it from your public library as well. That is where I got it from to read initially, although I plan to add it to my personal reference library in the near future.
Strength training and flexibility exercises will definitely help your overall physical condition, make losing weight, and daily living easier, and help you avoid injury as well.
If you can work them in to your schedule once or twice a week, they will definitely help with blood sugar control, as well. But if you make the "PACE" approach the backbone of your diabetic exercise program, I believe you'll be pleasantly surprised by how well it will help you lower your blood sugar naturally.
Exercises for Diabetics
Specific exercises can be almost anything as long as it won't hurt your feet. Since blood circulation is usually poor in those suffering with high blood sugar, you need to be very careful not to do any type of exercise that could blister, or cause other injury to your feet.
Choose your OwnHowever, beyond that concern, any exercise you enjoy, or can easily perform will work as one of your exercises for diabetics.
Additionally, it is probably preferable to do several different types of exercise on a rotational basis, rather than doing only one type habitually for months, and years, on end. This will keep your body from becoming so accustomed to one type of activity, that it is no longer challenged by it.
In my case, I alternate between walking, jumping on a mini-trampoline, doing Pilates, gardening, yard work, and peddling a Peddle Boat. Although I've not been diagnosed with diabetes, perhaps my determination, since I was middle aged, to keep physically active has prevented it, since diabetes does run in my family. If not, it has undoubtedly been beneficial to my overall health.
Exercises for Diabetics
Although conventional medicine claims there is no cure for diabetes,
Conclusions
effective exercises for diabetics combined with the right diabetic diet information, and the best supplements for diabetes can lower your blood sugar naturally and restore your body's ability to use insulin again. According to the FDA, only doctors and their prescriptions can "cure" anything, so let's just say this approach will enable your body to heal.However, this healing can only take place if you are willing to take responsibility for your own health and use these keys to lowering your blood sugar naturally. Only then can you experience a type 2 diabetes cure.
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