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Treatment of type 2 diabetes can be done by doing sports. This activity has been shown to lower high blood sugar, thereby reducing the risk of severity. Photos/Diabetes UK
Type 2 diabetes is a chronic metabolic condition characterized by insulin resistance. Fluctuations in blood sugar levels can have dire effects on the body but there are exercises that are shown to directly target the breakdown of this system.
The American Diabetes Association recommends that people with type 2 diabetes start a strength-exercise program to help control blood sugar.
This type of exercise involves a series of stretches or lifts, holding each stretch for as long as 60 seconds. Then repeat for each body part you are targeting.
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This type of exercise is said to be one of the best things you can do for your body and is an essential part of any fitness plan. In addition, this type of exercise also provides other benefits.
These include responding better to insulin, improving the way you use your blood sugar, losing weight and lowering your risk of heart disease. An Internal Journal of Cardiology study showed that in people with type 2 diabetes, strength training was more beneficial for blood sugar regulation than cardio.
Strength training relies on the body’s glycolytic, or glucose use, metabolic system for energy. Exercise physiologist Nick Occhipinti says when you do this exercise, you use stored muscle glycogen for fuel.
“Once this stored muscle glycogen is depleted, we begin to mobilize extra glycogen from the liver and from the blood. It helps to directly lower blood glucose as well as depletes stored muscle and liver glycogen stores, giving blood glucose a place to go the next time we eat.”
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Examples of strength sports are weight lifting machines or free weights at the gym, using resistance bands, lifting light weights or objects such as cans or water bottles at home, gymnastics or exercises that use one’s own body weight to train muscles, such as push ups, sits. ups, squats, lunges, wall sits and planks.
In addition, take classes that involve strength training as well as other activities that build and maintain muscle, such as vigorous gardening.
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