Importance of Exercise in Controlling Diabetes

A positive approach, appropriate lifestyle, changes in diet and right kind of exercises helps to manage diabetes naturally. Walking, jogging, swimming, bicycling or physical labor decreases fat in the blood and reduces the need for insulin. All the above exercises tone up the muscles of the body and utilize calories stored in body fat. Exercise is the most effective way of controlling diabetes. Exercise is beneficial if it is done on a regular basis and you enjoy it.

How Regular-Exercise Controls Blood Sugar
Exercise is very beneficial in both Type-1 and Type-2 diabetes. Exercise helps metabolize glucose in the blood. As a result maintaining safe sugar level becomes easy.

Exercising uses more energy than relaxation; and Glucose in the blood is the source of this energy. So when a diabetic patient exercises blood sugar level decreases. In type-2 diabetes when body efficiency is increased more glucose is pushed from the blood stream to the cells. Due to this the glucose in the blood will reduce.

• Obesity increases the strain on beta-cells (cells that make insulin) in the pancreas and impairs them forever.
• But weight reduction reduces this strain.
• There is an increase in number of receptor sites and so the beta cells are not overworked because the body requires less insulin.
• Hence a regular planned exercise schedule is necessary.

• Slim people have more insulin receptors than obese people.
• For obese-people regular exercise is especially beneficial.
• During exercises energy is utilized and this helps in weight reduction.
• Weight reduction increases the number of receptor sites.
• Thereby more sugar is transferred into the cells from the blood stream.

Exercise, Cholesterol and Diabetes
• Diabetics face an increased risk of arteriosclerosis.
• High blood cholesterol is directly linked to arteriosclerosis.
• High blood cholesterol and diabetes are thus interrelated and leads to hardening of arteries that should be avoided.
• Exercise increases the High-density lipoprotein (HDL) and removes cholesterol from blood thus lowers blood cholesterol.
• Exercise also helps control Triglycerides and bad type low-density lipoprotein (LDL), and thus blood pressure is also lowered.
• This in turn minimizes the risk of heart attacks and strokes common in people with diabetes.

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