Can Diabetes Patients Do Sports Activities? Check out the settings

Report from TribunJakarta.com journalist, Pebby Adhe Liana

TRIBUNJAKARTA.COM, JAKARTA – Exercise is one of the recommended efforts for patients diabetes apart from drugs.

However, if already hit diabetes, Sports as what is recommended?

Internal Medicine Specialist in RSCM FKUI dr. Dyah Purnamasari explain, Sports not only about strenuous physical activity.

Some light physical activity can also help the patient diabetes in improving heart fitness and burning calories.

Like sweeping, watering plants, or cleaning the yard.

“So what we actually need is physical activity. One of them is physical activity Sports. That is, apart from Sports many other physical activities that also help improve heart fitness, as well as burn calories. “

“For example sweeping, cleaning the yard, spraying plants, those are also daily activities that we can take into account,” he said in a discussion with Tropicana Slim, Friday (6/11/2020).

According to him, in general sports activities themselves need to be adjusted to the conditions of each diabetic patient.

Because, every patient diabetes has a spectrum of different degrees of severity.

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