Control Diabetes with Exercises
March 30th, 2009 -- Posted in Diabetes | No Comments »Diabetes is perhaps one of the most common diseases of the modern era. We can say that our environment and out habits have a huge role to play in this regard but still the fact cannot be ignored that more and more people are falling prey to this long lasting disease each year.
There is no perfect cure for this disease thus those who are unfortunate enough to fall prey to this disease have only one option left and that is to control this disease as much as they can.
This is not as hard as it seems, although one must sacrifice a lot for this task but in the end a healthier life seems like a good reward for all that sacrifice. There are three things important for controlling diabetes i.e. diet, exercise and medication.
All these three are essential and if all of them are taken into consideration then a healthier life can be guaranteed.
Most people like to start with exercise because it sounds easy enough and inexpensive as well. Although the importance of diet and medication cannot be neglected, exercise is the best method for prevention and control of diabetes.
When the body is in high level of activity, it need energy which it gets from the burning of fats and glucose. The muscles utilize the energy released from burning up of fats and glucose to continue functioning actively.
During this activity the decrease in glucose level in the body signals the pancreas to relax the production of insulin and thus the levels of insulin gets lowered.
This low level of insulin signals the liver to release its storage of glucose into the blood to supply the muscles with enough glucose to burn up to create energy for use.
Thus the level of glucose in the liver storage drops so it has to converts amino acids, lactic acids and fats in the body into glucose to provide the muscles for their functioning.
If the activity is continued for a long enough period the body fats also start to compensate for the deficiency of fatty acids in the body which had been consumed up already thus the body fat also starts to decrease.
Thus considering the process involved in supplying energy to the body for exercise, one can see that exercise is the best way to utilize the stored fats and glucose and is therefore the best method for controlling diabetes.