Diet and Exercise : Your Best Lifetime Partner for Blood Sugar Control

The patients with type 2 diabetes are mostly overweight, have unhealthy eating lifestyle and distressful mind. Therefore the best treatment is to give a 'counterstrike' for the situation. The opposite of overweight, unhealthy and distressful lifestyle is 'diet and exercise' lifestyle. This new lifestyle is going to be your best lifetime partner that keeps you healthy and live longer. Neglecting it will lead to many complications such as heart diseases, hypertension, high cholesterol levels, kidney failure, nerve disorders, blindness, impotence, etc..

Function and variety of type 2 diabetes sugar control with diet and exercise

Type 2 diabetes sugar control with diet and exercise is not only effective in controlling the blood sugar level in bloodstream, but also helps to reduce weight and stress level. Doing exercise needs a lot of energy supply from glucose and fat, therefore weight loss happens through the burning of body's fat.
When you are busy doing your exercises, you can't think about distressful things, you can't do a fitness without focusing on the movements, and you'll be counting the laps when you do swimming, so it is really no time for stress when you are exercising. However, some exercises can increase the blood sugar level. You should consult the exercises with the doctor before doing one.

Type 2 diabetes diet is a designed menu that provides certain calories amount for your daily intake. This menu includes the balance of carbohydrate, protein, fat and fiber, also with the supports of vitamin and mineral supplements. You should take your meals in the exact same time and serving amount to maintain a stable blood sugar level. While type 2 diabetes exercise can be any exercises that suit your condition.

Generally, these are several advantages of exercise for type 2 diabetes patients :
- Use a lot of blood glucose and fats for source of energy. Therefore it needs more insulin to process the glucose into energy, and also quickly burns fats into energy (weight loss).
- Decrease the blood pressure, so it can avoid hypertension.
- Strengthen and thicken the bone.
- Stimulate a well-flow blood circulation to prevent heart diseases.
- Decrease bad cholesterol (LDL) level and increase good cholesterol (HDL) level.
- Help to reduce stress.

It is better to plan your type 2 diabetes sugar control with diet and exercise with the experts, doctors or dietitians.

However, the variety of exercises with each advantages may be good idea for your consideration :
1. Strength training with barbells and machines, for example weight lifting, is showing a significant result in controlling the blood sugar after 4 months training period. The diabetic patients are more confident with their new look (weight loss and built muscles) and able to manage their stress level.

2. Aerobic fitness which is exercise to increase the heart rate for longer period, such as treadmill and swimming, not only good in lowering the risk of type 2 diabetes, but also effective in stress management.

Whatever you choose for your exercise plan, you should do it routinely, best is three to four times a week and 20-40 minutes each. Even you have reach a good shape and ideal weight, the routine is still to be continued because the actual goal is to maintain a stable blood sugar level in your bloodstream. Living a moderate exercise lifestyle will increase the body speed in processing the glucose, 20 times more than normal speed.
So there will be no overload blood sugar in bloodstream. But intense exercise is rather risky for it stimulates the body to provide more glucose and therefore the body is taking out all its glucose supply to support the activities and later increases the blood sugar level. If you are doing intense exercise, remember to inject insulin after the exercise.

These are some guidelines for you to plan out exercises with the doctors :

1. Choose an exercise you like most, so you can enjoy doing it for long term.
2. Ask someone with diabetes knowledge to accompany you when doing exercise. If you can't find any, wear a wrist tag with diabetes warning.
3. Check your blood sugar level before, during and after each exercise. Do not proceed any exercise if your blood sugar level is over 250 mg/dL with positive ketones.
4. Always start with slow movements, then gradually increase the intensity.
5. Drink sufficient water to avoid dehydration.
6. Stop the exercise whenever you feel unhealthy or pain, and consult the condition with the doctor.