Diabetes and Exercise

Diabetes exercise question?

Im a type 1 diabetic hoping to loose weight and am thinking of joining hot yoga but is this safe?Will it cause hypos?

Hypertension, diabetes on the rise with obesity rate

Hypertension, diabetes on the rise with obesity rate
As the obesity rate climbs and chronic disease management falters, the serious and costly complications of diabetes will multiply.

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Type 2 Diabetes – are you Sure it is not Type 2 Diabetes Symptoms?

Read this Article to know all about the Type 2 Diabetes

In Type 2 diabetes the body does not create enough or sufficient insulin. Insulin is the hormone which is important for the body to be able to use sugar. In Type 2 Diabetes the body doesn’t react to the insulin normally.

Glucose is less able to enter the cells and do its work of providing energy. This causes the blood sugar level to go up, making the pancreas produce even more insulin. Finally, the pancreas can wear out from working overtime to produce extra insulin. Then, the pancreas may no longer be able to create enough insulin to keep a person’s blood sugar levels within a normal range.

Children and teens with type 2 diabetes use diet, exercise, and medicines that recover the body’s response to insulin to manage their blood sugar levels.

Causes of Type 2 Diabetes

Although no one knows exact causes Type 2 diabetes, there appears to be a hereditary component to developing it. In fact, it’s expected that 45% to 80% of children with type 2 diabetes have at least one parent with diabetes and may have a significant family history of this ailment.

Most children and adults who develop type 2 diabetes are overweight or obese. Excess fat makes it difficult for the cells to react to insulin. And being inactive (lack of physical movement) further decreases the body’s capability to act in response to insulin.

Many years ago, doctors called this type of diabetes adult-onset diabetes because it almost exclusively affected the adults who are overweight. Today, that explanation is no longer correct. Today more kids and teens are being diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes, possibly because more kids and teens are overweight.

Type 2 Diabetes Symptoms:

The following symptoms are the most common symptoms of type 2 diabetes. But the symptoms may differ from one person to another. Symptoms may include:

* frequent infections that are not simply healed

* high levels of sugar in the blood and urine when tested

* abnormal thirst

* frequent urination

* intense hunger but loss of weight

* blurred vision

* extreme weakness

* irritability and mood changes

* tingling or loss of feeling in the hands or feet

Some people who have type 2 diabetes show no symptoms. Type 2 diabetes Symptoms may be mild and almost invisible, or easy to confuse with signs of aging.

The symptoms of type 2 diabetes may look like other conditions or medical problems. Always discuss with your physician or doctor for a diagnosis.

Treatment for type 2 diabetes:

Precise treatment for type 2 diabetes will be determined by your physician or doctor based on:

* your age, overall health, and medical records

* level of the disease

* your tolerance for specific medications, procedures, or therapies

* your attitude or preference

The goal of treatment is to keep normal blood sugar levels.

Importance is on control of blood sugar (glucose) by observing the levels, habitual physical activity, meal planning, and regular healthcare. Treatment of diabetes is an enduring process of management and education that comprises not only the person with diabetes, but also healthcare experts and family members.

Often, Type 2 diabetes can be controlled through losing weight, improved nutrition, and exercise only. Though, in some cases, these procedures are not sufficient and either oral medications and/or insulin must be used. Treatment often consists of:

* right diet

* weight management

* a suitable exercise program

* regular foot examination

* Oral medications and/or insulin replacement therapy, as directed by your physician

There are a variety of types of medications that may be used to cure type 2 diabetes when the way of life changes such as diet, exercise, and weight loss. Oral medications of numerous dissimilar types exist, with each type working in a different mode to lower blood sugar. One medication may be united with another medication to improve blood sugar control. When oral medications are no longer useful, insulin may be needed.

New medications for treating diabetes are in progress. GLP-1 agonists are one of the latest kinds of medications. GLP-1 agonists work by stimulating insulin production by the pancreas, slowing the emptying of food from the stomach, and reducing the production of glucagon in the pancreas (glucagon is a hormone developed by the pancreas that stimulate release of glucose by the liver).

Regular monitoring of the hemoglobin A1c levels

The hemoglobin A1c test (also called HbA1c test) shows the average amount of sugar in the blood over the previous three months. The outcome or result will indicate if the blood sugar level is under control. The frequency of HbA1c testing will be determined by your doctor. It is recommended that testing occur at least twice a year if the blood sugar level is in the objective range and stable, and more commonly if the blood sugar level is unsteady.

Untreated or inappropriately-treated diabetes can cause troubles with the kidneys, legs, feet, eyes, heart, nerves, and blood flow, which could lead to kidney failure, gangrene, amputation, blindness, or stroke. Thus, it is important to pursue a strict treatment plan.

The question is who is at risk of type 2 diabetes?

Type 2 Diabetes or insulin resistance often goes side by side with central obesity (excess body fat that is concentrated around the waist), high blood pressure and high cholesterol. This group of disorders is occasionally known as syndrome X or metabolic syndrome.

Factors that amplify the person’s risk of developing type 2 diabetes consist of:

* Person elder than 55;

* Person overweight or fat;

* Having an family member with diabetes (may be parent, brother or sister);

* having had gestational diabetes during pregnancy;

* Having had a borderline blood glucose outcome; and having had a heart attack, or having heart ailment or high blood pressure.

I am doing a school prestination on diabetes and exercise what should I include on the poster?

I am having a hard time separting what should be on the poster and what should be on the handout any one have any ideas?

Type 2 Diabetes, The Invisible Killer

The paunch: an inevitable and yet ultimately innocuous fact of life eventually facing most men in the UK, you might think. But as you notice that slight thickening of the waist and dimpling around the kidneys, a chemical process is underway with the potential to change your life, if you ignore it that is. Although you don’t know it yet that spreading midriff is poisoning your metabolism and may, by the time you hit your mid-forties have set you on the road to a premature death from the irreversible complications of the world’s current invisible epidemic: Type 2 diabetes.

This is just a warning. It is not meant to alarm, merely cause you to take note – and action. If what you are about to read causes concern, and it should be, then console yourself with the knowledge that you can do something about it before it happens. The thing to remember with diabetes is that, perhaps more than any other disease, it’s down to you, mainly what you eat and if you exercise.

Have you noticed you’re buying jeans with a bit more room? The first signs are relatively mild. A 37-inch waist or more and you could be joining the ever-swelling ranks of diabetics, now an unnerving 1.8 million, with a more worrying 1 million still undiagnosed lust in the United Kingdom. About 70% will die from heart attacks or strokes, hundreds a year will go blind, while 1000 will suffer kidney failure. Crucially though the incidence of diabetes in the UK has risen by 450 per cent since 1960 and the acceleration continues.

Worldwide statistics are equally alarming and help explain the UK’s figure. Diabetes affects 150 million people in every corner of the world, not just in Western societies where obesity is rife. By 2025, the World Health Organisation predicts the number of diabetics worldwide will reach 300 million. Each year, the disease claims more lives than breast cancer or AIDS, and is the fourth most common cause of death in developed countries. One study estimates treatment of diabetes accounts for 9 per cent of the health care budget in the UK, that’s a staggering 9893 pounds sterling every minute.

The Government puts the cost at a mind blowing 4 billion punds sterling and likely to rise to 10 per cent within six years. It is without doubt the world’s most alarming – and yet ultimately preventable health crisis.

So what is happening?

As your nascent gut gradually expands, toxic fatty acids (that’s beer and burgers) radiate from within, lowering “good” HDL cholesterol levels and materially changing the structure of arteries, which can contribute to high blood pressure. What’s more, your burgeoning midriff is among the causes of insulin resistance, where the hormone fails to properly convert blood glucose into energy, leaving levels dangerously high. The pancreas goes into overdrive to produce more insulin.

Alarmingly 10 years before your Type 2 diabetes is even diagnosed you are displaying four of the defining characteristics (obesity, low HDL cholesterol, high blood pressure, insulin resistance) of metabolic syndrome – the condition that puts you at risk of developing the world’s fastest-growing illness. Then, as you age, the continual assault of toxic compounds on your pancreas reduces its ability to produce enough insulin – known as insulin deficiency. As you near 45, it stops and pancreas cells begin to die.

Although diabetes can often be prevented, it remains incurable despite vast medical resources. Most money goes on managing the illness with tablets or self injected insulin, regular monitoring for deterioration, hospital aftercare for those who have hypos (dangerously low blood sugars) and surgery when things go wrong. A pioneering treatment, islet cell transplantation is now available, in which insulin producing beta cells from a donor are injected into a (Type 1 only) diabetic’s liver. However, this is only suitable in certain cases and the potential side effects (including deterioration of kidney function) mean it is recommended only for seriously ill patients.

The problem is the tell-tale symptoms of this silent epidemic often go unnoticed until it’s too late. Tiredness, thirst, frequent urination and infections as the glucose in your blood rockets are all indicators.

People with the initial symptoms of Type 2 diabetes don’t go to the doctor as they feel they are only minor irritations that will pass, and nobody like wasting the doctor’s valuable time, but by the time you do, your body has been ravaged by an invisible disease for a decade and the damage has been done.

Frightening, isn’t it? Well, yes; but it needn’t be, not if you follow the simple steps to protecting yourself. They involve a more sensible diet and exercise regime – it’s that easy. And if you’re unlucky enough to develop diabetes despite taking these steps, it needn’t ruin your life.

The boxer Sugar Ray Robinson was diabetic, as are Joe Frazier, the golfer Jack Nicklaus. Britain’s greatest ever Olympian, Sir Steve Redgrave, still managed to pick up a few gold medals despite being a sufferer.

Type 2 diabetes is caused by many malfunctions, imbalances and deficiencies, a lot of which can be attributed to modern living.

The only treatment is a change in lifestyle. Some doctors believe you can treat type 2 diabetes with a lot of exercise and no medication at all. Exercise makes you more insulin-sensitive, so if you’re fit you can make much better use of the small amount of insulin you actually have.

If that insulin is not really working and your blood sugars are high, and then you add exercise, they will come back to normal. Exercise can be the treatment and the prevention. Exercise also helps keep diabetes at bay or under control by regulating glucose levels and preventing blood pressure from rising. Diabetics should get advice from a doctor about precisely the kind of exercise that is best for them. Light running, swimming and walking are all heartily endorsed.

You will probably be advised to spread your exercise schedule over a week, half an hour a day is far more beneficial than three hours once a week. In the same way, the simple step of eating more healthily and regularly can limit the damage the disease inflicts.

Although weight loss is advisable, a low-carbohydrate diet to achieve it is no good here. Regular meals based on starchy foods such as bread, pasta, potatoes, rice and cereals will help control blood glucose levels. Go for carbohydrates with a low glycaemic index (GI) – sweet potatoes, wholemeal bread, long-grain rice, all which give slow-release energy and help keep blood sugars low.

Those with a family history of diabetes should also go for annual check-ups. If both your parents have Type 2, the chances of you developing it are 75 per cent, if either your mother or your father has it; the chances are 20 per cent. It’s here that perhaps the most pernicious aspect of the current diabetes problem reveals itself.

Although anyone can get diabetes, those of Afro-Caribbean or South-east Asian origin are three to five times more likely to do so than Caucasians. More than 20 per cent of Indian men over the age of 50 have diabetes, and some ethnic groups are even more prone. Clearly, then, there is more to the illness than being fat, lazy, greedy and indifferent.

It’s likely that the world’s steady conversion to a Western diet of processed foods high in fat, sugar and salt is responsible. Combined with an increasingly sedentary lifestyle (an office job, driving instead of walking), again copied from the West, poor diet seems to affect some populations worse than others. Although some scientists believe that genetics may have a big part to play in type 2 diabetes it can’t be denied that up to half of all cases might be eliminated if weight gain in adults could be prevented, in other words if we ate healthily and took more exercise.

The invisible epidemic need not claim you. Take note and take action.