Considering that people with Type 2 diabetes mostly endure many symptoms that deteriorate their life quality, a healthy diet alongside with strength exercise may hold the key to balancing the blood sugar control. People suffering from Type 2 diabetes can’t produce the sufficient amount of insulin the body needs to properly function.

Now, the American Diabetes Association recommends these patients to develop a healthy routine that involves not only a balanced diet but more importantly, a strength training routine. By exercising on a daily basis, people with Type 2 diabetes can control their blood sugar levels because exercise improves their insulin resistance, as well as the way their body harnesses energy from carbohydrates.

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The American Diabetes Association recommends Type 2 diabetes patients to develop a healthy routine that involves not only a balanced diet but more importantly, a strength training routine. Photo credit: Runners Wolrd

The first type of diabetes it’s a little trickier to tackle because people’s body takes care of whipping out the cells in charge of producing insulin and thus, damages people’s organs. People with Type 1 diabetes can eat whatever they like – most people tend to forget that – but they need to check their blood sugar before, as well as taking their insulin shots. This is the constant battle people with Type 1 diabetes has to endure on a day-to-day basis.

Researchers haven’t still found a way to reverse the Type 1 diabetes diagnosis, yet the autoimmune disease is no easy target either. Because Type 2 diabetes normally develops in the adult years of a person it’s necessary for them to review their daily habits and revise what needs to be changed in their routine. For instance, if an adult person weights over 200 pounds at the time he or she was diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes, it’s in that person’s best interest to lose weight.

Fat and ill or fit and healthy

First of all, researchers have found that people with overweight present a higher risk to develop diabetes in comparison to those who stay in a standard physical shape. Secondly, doctors also have found the cells inside fat, or fat cells, can pose a threat to the person’s health if they don’t start losing weight by the time they’re diagnosed. The fat cells stand as little hormone-producing factories, and they can influence people’s appetite as well as their metabolism because the hormones travel throughout the whole body.

Researchers from the American Diabetes Association claim that a healthy regime including strength exercise can lead people who suffer from Type 2 diabetes to reverse their diagnosis. An exercise routine that adapts to the patient’s requirements can be a significant factor for the person to forget about his or her condition for good.

Researchers recommend diabetics to consult what type of exercises can help them reverse their diagnosis before starting lifting weights and so on. The people suffering from Type 2 diabetes may have hope if they act fast and get a personal trainer to force them to keep up with the exercise routine. For now, diabetes remission is seen only in Type 2 diabetes, yet exercise routines and healthy diets are expected to help people with Type 1 diabetes as well.

Source: The Guardian