Exercise Can Prevent Diabetes
According to Dr. Gabe Mirkin, exercise helps to prevent and treat diabetes by increasing the number of enzymes that transport fat from fat cells to muscle cells where it can be used for energy by the muscles. Before insulin can do its job of removing sugar from the bloodstream and putting it into cells where it can be burned for energy, it must first.......
How exercise prevents diabetes: more than just weight control
A fascinating study from Maastricht University in the Netherlands shows that exercise helps to prevent and treat diabetes by increasing the number of enzymes that transport fat from fat cells to muscle cells where it can be used for energy by the muscles. Before insulin can do its job of removing sugar from the bloodstream and putting it into cells where it can be burned for energy, it must first attach on special hooks called insulin receptors on the surface of cells. Fat stored in cells internalizes receptors so insulin loses its attachment sites and is unable to its job. Exercise causes muscle cells to markedly increase their production of certain fat transported proteins that remove fat from fat and muscle cells. So less fat is available to block insulin receptors and blood sugar levels drop. Journal reference
Another study, from University of California at Berkeley, followed 36,000 male runners for almost a decade. Those who ran five or more miles per week were half as likely to develop diabetes as those who ran fewer than five miles per week (Diabetes Care, November 2007). Furthermore, researchers at the University of Western Australia showed that an eight-week exercise program markedly increased diabetics' ability to respond to insulin, even if they did not lose any fat. Journal reference
Anyone who wants to prevent diabetes should make exercise a priority. Because of the extremely high rate of heart disease in diabetics, all diabetics should have their hearts checked by a cardiologist. If they can pass a thalium stress test, they should be in some kind of supervised exercise program.
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Wednesday, November 24, 2010
Good news for diabetes sufferers
Exercise works against exercise.
And this is going to be fun.
The HART-2 study [http://www.pbrc.edu/news/?ArticleID=104 ], conducted by the Pennington Biomedical Research Center in Baton Rouge, La., presented last month in San Diego,
[http://www.pbrc.edu/the-center/faculty/?EmployeeID=3238] prescribed 140 minutes per week combining light weight training with aerobic activity.
The results after nine months were lower rates of heart disease and eye complications, and a hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) level 34 percent lower than those who did either weight training or aerobics alone.
The CNN story on this featured a woman doing both light weights and a treadmill together, but you can easily do them separately.
The key is to work your muscles.
Timothy Church, who led the study, noted that the muscles are your biggest users of blood sugar, so improving the health of muscles helps control blood sugar levels.
I have been on a regimen like this for hypertension since early in the last decade, and what I’ve learned is that variety is not only key to results, but a key to staying on the regimen.
It’s not just a question of doing both something aerobic or something with weights, or doing both simultaneously. The key is doing different things each day.
If you hit the same exercycle every morning you’re very likely to quit.
But if you do it just once a week, walk once a week, use an elliptical machine once a week, do free weights once a week, do fixed weights once a week, and then enjoy a day outside walking, running or biking it all becomes pleasure.
The benefits are both long term and short term. I write better after exercise, and sleep better. My hypertension is also under control. More important I wake up each day thinking of what I’m going to do, rather than worrying about what disease is going to do to me.
One more tip. Try this with friends. If you don’t have any, go to a gym, a church, a YMCA or your co-workers and make some. Tell your boss that if he supports this sort of thing he can lower his health care costs, too.
By Dana Blankenhorn Nov 24, 2010
http://www.smartplanet.com/technology/blog/rethinking-healthcare/good-news-for-diabetes-sufferers/2171/?tag=content;col1
And this is going to be fun.
The HART-2 study [http://www.pbrc.edu/news/?ArticleID=104 ], conducted by the Pennington Biomedical Research Center in Baton Rouge, La., presented last month in San Diego,
[http://www.pbrc.edu/the-center/faculty/?EmployeeID=3238] prescribed 140 minutes per week combining light weight training with aerobic activity.
The results after nine months were lower rates of heart disease and eye complications, and a hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) level 34 percent lower than those who did either weight training or aerobics alone.
The CNN story on this featured a woman doing both light weights and a treadmill together, but you can easily do them separately.
The key is to work your muscles.
Timothy Church, who led the study, noted that the muscles are your biggest users of blood sugar, so improving the health of muscles helps control blood sugar levels.
I have been on a regimen like this for hypertension since early in the last decade, and what I’ve learned is that variety is not only key to results, but a key to staying on the regimen.
It’s not just a question of doing both something aerobic or something with weights, or doing both simultaneously. The key is doing different things each day.
If you hit the same exercycle every morning you’re very likely to quit.
But if you do it just once a week, walk once a week, use an elliptical machine once a week, do free weights once a week, do fixed weights once a week, and then enjoy a day outside walking, running or biking it all becomes pleasure.
The benefits are both long term and short term. I write better after exercise, and sleep better. My hypertension is also under control. More important I wake up each day thinking of what I’m going to do, rather than worrying about what disease is going to do to me.
One more tip. Try this with friends. If you don’t have any, go to a gym, a church, a YMCA or your co-workers and make some. Tell your boss that if he supports this sort of thing he can lower his health care costs, too.
By Dana Blankenhorn Nov 24, 2010
http://www.smartplanet.com/technology/blog/rethinking-healthcare/good-news-for-diabetes-sufferers/2171/?tag=content;col1
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