Diabetics Must Repay Their Exercise Debt

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Sandzzzzz — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 15:08:16 GMT

Finally some sound logic - diet and exercise are both vital components in good health yet the focus is mostly placed on diet without serious exercise.

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mmc88121 — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 00:42:36 GMT

I was on my way to becoming a type 2 diabetic. But I ate a "good" diet I avoided processed foods and ate whole grains. I needed more exercise but I never felt good enough to exercise. That is until I found out I was allergic to wheat, milk, corn, and soy products. I have elimated them from my diet, lost over 50 lbs. and have felt better than I ever have in my life.

mmc88121

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cherylanne — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 00:22:44 GMT

Ok, lets face it. We need to be lead around like lost sheep and follow what the masses are doing. Seriously, so many people are laying down there lives at the feet of there doctors and expecting them to take care of them. They "assume" that the higher education that these MD's have gives them all the answers, so they rely totally on their advice, however lame and misguided it is. We are not responsible enough for our own health. We want to eat and live the life we choose and then the doctors can pick up the broken pieces when we begin to fall apart. Like Mercola says "Take Control of Your Health". Use your head, research your condition, educate yourself. If you dont' know what kind of food to eat, or exercise to do. ASK. Everyone must know someone who is taking care of themselves, someone they can ask for guidance to get them started if you really can't figure it out for yourself. I apologize if this does not read very kindly but we really need to start being responsible for ourselves and do what is best for us and not follow the masses who are lined up at MacDeaths or who jump in the car to drive two blocks to the corner store for a bag of chips. Instead of saying "oh, I know I shouldn't but....." DON'T. Just stop it and do something good for yourself.

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Kurt_Jarcik — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 22:29:59 GMT

It is sad that people don't do the simple thing that can make there life easier & better. Eat healthy, and take a fast walk and you will feel better & live longer OK!

Kurt www.easystm.com

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foxtroter_203 — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 18:00:57 GMT

The importance of exercise in diabetes can not be emphasized enough. We do know, however, that diabetes is the result usually of multiple flaws in lifestyle. In my case, when I finally accepted I was diabetic my A1c was 8.0. (this means my blood sugar averaged 180). It took me about 6 months to get where my blood sugar is almost always below 115. No drugs have been used. There are several reasons why I became diabetic:

1. I had been a vegetarian for 10 years and then basically followed the American Heart Association dietary recommendations for the next 25 years. Thus, my diet was too high in carbohydrate for 35 years. My sugar downfall was not sodas, pasta, candy or bread, but fruit and the fresh fruit juice from my fruit trees. I had my daily quota of “fruits and vegetables” instead of lots of “non starchy vegetables and a small amount of low glycemic fruits”. I should have been drinking more water and less juice.

2. Though I was not much overweight, I was “overfat” from lack of exercise for 10 years. I am 5’ 10” and weighed 165 pounds but was at 30% body fat. I am now at 19% body fat with a little further to go.

3. Genetically there are people that produce 2-3 times as much insulin as I do. Though they may never become diabetic, their lives will be shortened by the high insulin levels doing damage. Unfortunately for them, the medical profession does not concern itself with prolonged elevated insulin levels because there is nothing they can do for it. Only lifestyle changes will normalize insulin levels. These poor souls will never understand why they are dying of various degenerative diseases.

4. Stress--I had lots of it. Who doesn’t though? Stress itself is not bad. It is our response to stressful situations that does the damage. Adrenalin and Cortisol are produced by stress. These two hormones are “break down” hormones which literally break down muscle and bone--your lean body mass--to get the nutrition it immediately needs during the stressful time. Remember that stressors include alcohol, transfatty acids, nicotine, caffeine, drugs (both legal and illegal), over exercising with heart rate sustained above 90 beats per minute, Type A personality, and lack of quality sleep. Learning meditative techniques, self-hypnosis, relaxation techniques, things like Mercola’s EFT are important. Sleeping with lights on is another stressor that causes major disruption of hormones. A TV on at night or even a little night light will disturb Melatonin production by making the body think it is an eternal summer day.

My reversal of diabetes included eating balanced meals. By balanced I mean 1). Eating habits---The right amount of protein for my weight and activity level; 2) Stress reduction---Meditation and improved sleep habits; 3) Exercise---Weight training three times a week making sure my pulse dropped below 90 for 60 seconds between sets. Walking regularly--not power walking though; 4) Nutritional support---Besides my Omega-3’s (5,000 mg a day) there are a variety of nutritional things I take that improve insulin sensitivity without using drugs.

Though I do not follow Mercola’s metabolic typing per say, he is right that everyone has slightly different protein and carbohydrate needs depending upon multiple factors. His “Fine Tuning” form on page 264 of his “Total Health” book is very helpful in determining whether you are eating a “balanced meal” or not.

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veggienut — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 15:11:03 GMT

As a Holistic Nutrition Counselor, I am appalled at the information given to diabetics. They come in my office thinking they have had all the nutritional info they need to be healthy and arrest the diabetes. In fact, what they have been given is a brief lecture on exercise (no assistance or specific plan is given), a generic, unappealing instruction to eat more veggies and whole grains (no explanation of how or even what those items consist of), and in many cases a six-pack of Diet Coke upon returning from a "Diabetes Class".

Rediculous. I have to untrain them after these classes, because they have a belief that it is ok to drink soda as long as it's diet, ok to eat processed foods as long as they don't have sugar, and to "be sure and get adequate protein" in the form of meats and dairys. Exercise completely falls by the wayside when you have a much more appealing method of "controlling" diabetes: diet soda.

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Josh Rubin — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 22:05:35 GMT

I feel it is more a nutrition and lifestyle disease as I have said in many of my posts. The reasons I feel that exercise can help, is that the stored glycogen in the muscles that is so overstored, know has a placed to be used as energy. This lessons the chances of getting DM as well as helping to eliminate it. I am not saying that this is the end all be all, but one of the reasons why MD's push exercise so much with DM clients.

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Russ Bianchi — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 18:17:30 GMT

There are SEVERAL emiprical and medical journal, peer reviewed, studies, in large population groups, that have been published, PROVING low impact regular exercise can seriously arrest or inhibit diabetes, if not in many cases reverse it. Of course this is in combination with a healthy and wholesome nutrient intake program like Dr. Mercola recommends.

Use it or lose it.