Remember drinking chocolate milk with your lunch or as a snack when you were a kid? It’s probably a habit you gave up ages ago, but maybe you should rethink it. According to a 2009 study published in
Something for the type 2s and pre-diabetic individuals out there: Yet another study released in 2008 showed that older, obese, and sedentary individuals are more likely to develop type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular complications, but that exercise may be the cure-all.
This post is an excerpt of my article that appeared in Diabetes Self-Management in the March/April 2007 issue, but was recently posted online.
Insulin is a hormone that is normally released by the beta cells of the pancreas. When a person’s pancreas cannot produce enough insulin to sustain good health, insulin can be injected into the [...]
…about Exercise and Diabetes. (A version of this article appeared on the DiabetesMine.com blog by Amy Tenderich in late July 2008.)
Even though I have been living with diabetes since I was four years old (in 1968), I knew even back then—more than a decade before the era of home blood glucose monitoring began—that exercise [...]
Given the burgeoning interest that the public at large appears to have with running that infamous 26.2 endurance race, it’s likely that other individuals with type 1 and type 2 diabetes will “hear the call” and decide to train for one. That’s exactly what happened to
Secret #27 is excerpted from Part Five: Exercise Secrets found in my new book about what has worked well for long-time diabetes survivors: 50 Secrets of the Longest Living People with Diabetes by Sheri Colberg, PhD, and Steven V. Edelman, MD (available November 2007). Check my Web site (www.shericolberg.com) for more details or to [...]
Probably the best argument for wearing a pedometer is that it has a strong motivational effect. If you have a goal set for each day (such as 10,000 or more steps), and you get near the end of the day and see you only have amassed 5,000, you’re more likely to
For those of you who follow the research, you may remember the debate about whether you can be fat and fit and still well off, as far as your metabolism and disease risk are concerned. Previously, researchers had concluded that although it’s best to be “fit and thin,” being “fit and fat” is almost [...]
Secret #27 is excerpted from Part Five: Exercise Secrets found in my new book about what has worked well for long-time diabetes survivors: 50 Secrets of the Longest Living People with Diabetes by Sheri Colberg, PhD, and Steven V. Edelman, MD (available November 2007). Check my Web site (www.shericolberg.com) for more details or to [...]
How much and what types of exercises do you need to do to reach an acceptable minimal level of fitness? Apparently, things have changed since 1995, when we were all supposed to do 20-60 minutes of aerobic exercise at least three to five day a week. According to updated physical activity guidelines released jointly [...]