Diabetes – Let Sports
Author: Jessie Hamilton
When you think of diabetes, we believe diet and medications. And we often forget the sport. Yet it is a weapon of choice to prevent and combat this disease. The most incredible challenges were made by diabetic so why not you?
Diabetes affects nearly 2 million people in France. For these patients, life is punctuated by a treatment often cumbersome and restrictive diet. And for good reason: he must know that this disease is characterized by an excess of glucose in the blood, the body does not secrete enough insulin to digest the sugar found in foods. If Type 1 diabetes requires daily treatment with insulin, diabetes type 2, which includes nine of ten patients can be treated with medications, a balanced diet and regular physical activity. Sport is one of the means available to them to be fulfilled beyond their illness.
Preventing
Diabetes sportler in sport is primarily a preventive measure. Prevent see delaying the onset of type 2 diabetes is possible by practicing regular physical activity and watching his weight. Sport contributes to the smooth functioning of our bodies and our well-being. And when you know that diabetes is directly linked to overweight and physical inactivity, there is more reluctance to have.
A sporting activity can help you lose weight but it has especially great therapeutic benefit for patients already diabetic. To Dr. Bekaa, diabetologist, “Sport can simply live better her diabetes. We realize that there are no limits and that we can do many things we thought inaccessible. And we find the pleasure of living like everyone else, simply.
And for patients already diabetic
Diabetes is accompanied by numerous complications, including cardiovascular. The sport will greatly reduce these risks. Run, swim, or perform any endurance sport that work the muscles while burning the sugar, causing a drop in blood sugar. Initially, this sugar is taken from muscle reserves, then the glucose in the blood. By accustoming the body to use insulin in such a way, he learns to use it, which contributes to improving the balance of diabetes. The sport is practiced without moderation, then!
However, it is important
* Not to go alone without telling anyone
* Eat well before and after exercise
* Adapt its controls blood sugar and insulin injections
* To provide always have sugar to deal with hypoglycaemia
* And especially to more attention to his feet, because we know the foot of the diabetic must be pampered and watched very closely.