Archive for May, 2010
Walking and Prevent Diabetes
Walking indeed give a variety of efficacy. Starting from fitness, increase stamina, prevent osteoporosis. Also it turned out that walking can also prevent diabetes. Who would not familiar with diabetes? This disease can affect anyone whether male or female and did not depend on a certain age. Living with diabetes is very uncomfortable. Besides it can cause complications, diabetics must also rely on medicines and running diet as long as he lives.
An easy way to prevent this disease is by walking. Physical activity, including light to medium and physical activity that are more intensive, can reduce the risk of diabetes. Lowering blood sugar levels by reducing liver glucose production on obese people. Increasing the average arrangement of glucose in the cells and sensitivity of glucose, improve insulin sensitivity up to 12-24 hours after done a physical activity, and increased high-density lipoprotein (HDL-good cholesterol) levels.
Active women who do physical activity like walking can reduce the risk of diabetes compared to women who do not do physical activity at all. Walking is also associated with weight loss that can reduce the risk of diabetes. Teenagers who are classified as overweight or inactive physical activity has 3 times greater chance of getting diabetes compared to others who have a normal weight.
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Recognize Sugary Foods
Have you ever heard the term about simple and complex carbohydrates? Well, sugar is a simple carbohydrate. It is called that way because it is soluble in the water and instantly absorbed by the body to convert into energy.
Generally, there are two types of sugar: a monosaccharide and disaccharide. Like its name, mono which means one, it was formed from one molecule of sugar; ‘the members are‘ include glucose, fructose and galactose. While disaccharide formed from two molecules of sugar. ‘The members are’ consisted from sucrose (a combination of glucose and fructose), lactose (if it is divided will become glucose and galactose), and last is maltose (two glucose combination).
The more sugar molecules gathered, then it will form a complex carbohydrate. More number of molecules, more complex the carbohydrate is. So it is clear now, right?! Any source of carbohydrates that you eat it must be containing sugar.
Mostly sugar, such as sucrose, glucose and fructose produced by plants through photosynthesis process. For this reason, three types of these simple carbohydrates can be found in a variety of fruits (like bananas, and grapes) and green vegetables.
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Efforts Against Diabetes
Do not just sit and let the diabetes control you. Stand up and control your body back. You have to fight to the end and if you let it, diabetes will become the end of everything. Do activities such as sports and listen to the doctor’s advice. Find your inner strength to fight this disease. You will be amazed at what happens when you decide to stand up and fight for your health.
Find kinds of activities that you like and do it. Do not get the passive activities. Enjoy your time under the sun. Do anything to get up and move every day to remember why you want to live forever in this world. Watch the things you eat. You need food supplies with a strict diet after you have been diagnosed with diabetes. This means that you really have to follow your dietary restrictions. Learn to live within certain limits in order to enjoy the life.
The amazing thing is that there are various kinds of food which are available for the people with diabetes. It is quite possible to live and quite well to eat. The most important thing about a diabetic diet is that you never forget how important the things that have been told about.
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