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Just Diagnosed with Type 2 Diabetes: What to do?
Just Diagnosed with Type 2 Diabetes: What to do?
Our Diabetes Forum is a great place to ask questions and share your concerns. Many of our members have been frequent visitors for years and they usually have great ideas to help other folks with diabetes. This question was answered...
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Benefits of Exercise for Diabetics
In people with type II diabetes, exercise may improve insulin sensitivity and assist in lowering elevated blood glucose levels into the normal range.
Here's how. When you exercise, your body uses more oxygen -- as much as 20 times more -- and even more in the working muscles, than when you are at rest. So the muscles use more glucose to meet their increased energy needs.
At the same time, exercise improves the action of insulin in the peripheral muscles, making it more efficient, so you get more out of the insulin your body is producing.
In older people with diabetes, the decrease in insulin sensitivity that comes with aging is also partly due to a lack of physical activity. So regular exercise benefits you now, and for years to come. |
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