Managing Diabetes Through The Use of Exercise

Managing diabetes is a multi-faceted challenge that ranges from nutrition, exercise, awareness of hypoglycemia training, and of course self-management education. Exercise is a phenomenal lifestyle tool that can effectively prevent the onset of type 2 diabetes and also for the direct management of both type 1 and type 2 diabetes. Type 1 diabetes only effects 5-10% of those diagnosed with diabetes in the United States and is often times referred to as insulin-dependent diabetes, or, juvenile onset diabetes. Type 1 diabetes, or T1D, is an autoimmune destruction of the Beta cells in the pancreas that are in charge of insulin …read more