Exercise prescriptions important for type 2 diabetes

It is a very good piece of advice.If it comes as apart of medical prescription patients tend to comply with them.

Regular exercise needs will power; life style changes need willful, conscious involvement. No wonder many will go for medication! The advantages of the former are not so obvious; exercise and lifestyle change have no side effects.

People with sweet tooth may find willful avoidance of sugar painfully difficult. People diagnosed as Type 2 diabetes may tend to read all labels of packaged ready- to- eat food stuffs to see how mush sugar they contain. Rather than going after variety, it may very well be beneficial to prepare in advance a list of foodstuffs one can consume and stick to it.

The biochemistry of sugar may not be difficult to understand. I have difficulty in understanding cellular kinetics of sugar. It is commonly known that sugar provides energy.The gastrointestinal tract swiftly absorbs sugar. Sugar appears in blood and over time it gets attached to red blood cells. A1C ratio is an indicator of the long term status of sugar absorption. I wondered whether the sugar attached to red blood cells will contribute energy or only those sugar molecules attached to tissues such as muscles will contribute energy.

Medical research increasingly favors drug interventions over strategies to modify lifestyle.

I wonder why they do ?

Is it because most if not all medical research is funded by drug companies ?

Last summer I cut back on my calories (started consuming about 1,700 to 2,200 per day) and started being more active.

I lost 22lb (10kg) over 3 months and no longer have to take tablets for my Type 2 diabetes.

I still check my sugar levels and most of the time they are within normal. Every 3 months my doctor tests my blood sugar amongst other things and in the past 3 tests it has been okay.

For me, losing some weight and being more active worked.

Patients with type 2 diabetes should be given exercise “prescriptions”

People should get that prescription long before they get T2 diabetes. Surely less would.