Saturday, June 20, 2015

Blood Sugar Control: 7 Aerobic Exercises for Diabetics

Regular exercise is especially important for a diabetic. The exercise helps control the amount of sugar in the levels of HDL (good cholesterol) and increases. Excess calories and fat also burns to help achieve optimal weight and affects how the body uses insulin significantly.

 Most diabetics do not believe that conduct regular exercises help control levels of blood sugar, and either reduce the severity or reduce long-term complications of diabetes.  

Understanding the relationships between food, drugs for diabetes and activity levels is essential to control sugar levels in the blood. Each interacts with the others. As a diabetic, you should find a balance for your individual situation.  

All types of exercises can be performed for each diabetic. Aerobic exercise is moderate and a good place to start for a diabetic. These exercises increase heart rate, work on the muscles and improve breathing capacity of the lungs. Aerobic exercises are usually performed 30 minutes to an hour for five days a week. 

 Energy burned during the year - its source of energy is too much glucose in the blood. The more sugar you use, your lower glucose levels. While aiming at low glucose levels, exercise can lower your blood sugar too low rate. 

 Get physically active every day. If you are relatively inactive, start with about 10 minutes of exercise. Add more or increase the frequency up to three times per day. In other words, a total of 30 minutes a day will do wonders for the body. Formal exercises to choose from:

   1-
Swimming or water aerobics.
   2-
Cycling outdoors or on a stationary bike inside. The advantage of a stationary bike is your exercise

        routine is independent of the weather.
   3-
Take a brisk walk. This exercise can take place outside or inside. Out could include walking around 

       one or more blocks, following a path in a local park, or use one track to school. For the interior, you
       can go up and down stairs, walking a path from one room to another and from one side to the other, 
       or walking on a treadmill.
   4-
Vacuuming. This mixture walk with stretching the leg, arm and back muscles.
   5- 
Making ice skating or roller skating.
   6-
Go dancing.
   7-
Run or play tennis.


Measuring your level of sugar in the blood before and after your exercise routine can be a real motivator. Diabetics often see a decrease of 20 percent of their sugar levels in the blood after exercise. Remember, any activity will burn calories and increase your energy level.


 Some aerobic activities you can do during the day include walking instead of driving, taking the stairs instead of the elevator, walk every aisle of the grocery store or park your car at the far end of the mall and walking to the store.

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