DIABETICS NEED TO EXERCISE
Exercise helps protect diabetics from heart attacks, strokes, blindness and nerve damage.
When you eat, blood sugar level rises. The higher it rises, the more sugar sticks to cells.
Once stuck on a cell, sugar cannot get off, so it is converted to a poison called sorbitol
which causes blindness, deafness, heart attacks, strokes, kidney damage, burning foot syndrome
and so forth. Once sugar enters your bloodstream, it can be stored only in liver and muscle cells.
If liver and muscle cells are full of sugar, the blood sugar has no place to go. On the other hand,
if the muscles are emptied by exercise, the sugar goes immediately into muscle and blood sugar levels do not rise too high. So a regular
exercise program empties muscles to prevent blood sugar levels from rising too high and by doing this helps to prevent all the side effects
of diabetes.
ET Poehlman, RV Dvorak, WF DeNino, M Brochu, PA Ades. Effects of resistance training and endurance training on insulin sensitivity
in nonobese, young women: A controlled randomized trial. Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism, 2000, Vol 85, Iss 7, pp 2463-8.
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