Diabetes Exercise Research Summaries
October 24th, 2009
Why Should People with Diabetes Exercise?
Exercise for diabetes allows the body to use the insulin it already has and this lowers blood glucose (sugar) levels.
Exercise for diabetes will also reduce your risk factors for cardiovascular diseases, such as heart attack and stroke, by decreasing cholesterol levels, blood pressure, and weight.
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Categories: Diabetes Exercise Facts
March 6th, 2010
Can exercise minimize postprandial oxidative stress in patients with type 2 diabetes?
Discussion of the ways that acute and chronic exercise can reduce postprandial oxidative stress.
Originally posted 2009-02-15 09:13:32.
Categories: Research
February 27th, 2010
A discussion of the study design.
Originally posted 2009-06-19 12:58:23.
Categories: Research
February 20th, 2010
Skeletal muscle is a powerful fat oxidizer and its role in daily fat balance is crucial. Training increases fat oxidation rate both during exercise and in resting conditions.
Related Link:
Overview of Diabetes in Children and Adolescents
Originally posted 2009-05-16 13:37:09.
Categories: Research
February 13th, 2010
Diabetes management for intense exercise.
A review article on the management of diabetes in athletes using advances in exercise physiology. For example, hypoglycemia may occur from 6 to 15 hours after strenuous activity.
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Fluid snacks to help persons with type 1 diabetes avoid late onset postexercise hypoglycemia.
Originally posted 2009-03-23 18:27:59.
Categories: Research
February 13th, 2010
Role of exercise training in the prevention and treatment of insulin resistance and non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus.
Sports Med. 1997 Nov;24(5):321-36.
This review states that the increase in abdominal fat and the loss of muscle mass are highly associated with the development of insulin resistance.
Originally posted 2008-12-01 07:00:00.
Categories: Review
February 6th, 2010
Exercise: the neglected risk factor and the neglected treatment.
Heart. 2009 Jan 16.
Diabetes and exercise are not used in the coronary heart disease prediction equation.
Originally posted 2009-01-30 07:00:00.
Categories: Research
January 30th, 2010
Preventing type 2 diabetes.
Prim Care. 2008 Dec;35(4):645-62.
Recommendations for managing patients with prediabetes.
Increase physical activity.
- 150 minutes of moderate activity, such as walking, each week.
- At least 30 minutes 5 days each week with no more than 24 hours in between days of inactivity.
- Aerobic physical activity should be performed at 50%–70% of one’s maximum predicted heart rate.
Originally posted 2009-02-05 05:00:00.
Categories: Review
January 16th, 2010
Knowing that diet and exercise is important is not enough to change behavior. For example, less that 30% of type 2 diabetics exercised regularly in this study.
Originally posted 2009-02-20 17:06:26.
Categories: Research
January 9th, 2010
Seven or more hours of vigorous exercise per week reduced the incidence of type 2 diabetes over 10 years (incidence rate ratio 0.43).
Watching television for 5 hours or more per day increased the incidence, independently of physical activity (incidence rate ratio 1.86).
Originally posted 2009-02-28 08:10:20.
Categories: Research
January 2nd, 2010
Can sprint interval exercise help diabetics who don’t have the time for lengthy workouts?
Insulin action was measured in 16 young male diabetics after 6 sessions of high intensity sprint interval exercise that was spread over 14 days. Insulin sensitivity improved by 23%.
Originally posted 2009-02-18 07:15:26.
Categories: Research
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