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Exercise to Prevent Diabetes and Complications
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The alarming increase in the number of people with Diabetes, has health officials worried. According to the U. S. Center of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) the age adjusted incidence for diabetes since 1980 has more than doubled. Most recently, in 2007 the CDC estimated that 23.5 million people in the U. S. had diabetes. Even more staggering is the CDC estimate of the number of people with pre-diabetes, an estimated 57 million people.
Pre-diabetes is a condition of elevated fasting blood sugar levels between 100 mg/dl and 125 mg/dl. Pre-diabetes is a reversible condition and doctors believe if treated can prevent diabetes from developing. The key is early intervention by weight loss, increase activity and dietary changes that reduce sugar intake. On the other hand, studies have shown that pre-diabetic individuals who adopt a “do nothing” strategy and continue life as usual within 10 years will go on to have diabetes 100% of the time.
Diabetes is believed by doctors to be a non-reversible condition, but its complications can be managed. Diabetes is the leading cause of blindness, amputation and kidney failure. 80% of diabetics will have a stroke, heart disease or peripheral vascular disease. A key management tool to prevent these complications is exercise, which can increase insulin sensitivity.
“Exercise has proven to be effective at all levels. At any stage of type II diabetes, from an obese child to a person dependent for 20 years on insulin injections, exercise could have a dramatic effect on improving insulin sensitivity.” John Thyfault of the University of Missouri-Columbia offers this advice based on the results of his study using diabetic rats.
He found that after short periods of exercise skeletal muscle cells were much more sensitive to insulin.
In a healthy body, insulin helps glucose move from the blood into our cells to be used. With diabetes, the cells can’t uptake the glucose properly and insulin sensitivity decreases.
Thyfault stated, “Since 80-90% of all glucose goes into muscle after a meal, it is reasonable that more active muscles on a day to day basis will result in increased insulin sensitivity.”
“In relation to a person with type II diabetes, this would mean that they could lessen their dependence on insulin therapy to control their blood glucose levels or potentially control glucose levels without any drug by just increasing their daily activity levels in addition to the right diet.”
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