Monday, June 12, 2017
Lifting and Diabetes - 6/12/17
More research links resistance training with improved insulin sensitivity among people with diabetes and prediabetes. One study published in the journal Diabetes Care
found that twice-weekly training sessions helped control insulin swings
(and body weight) among older men with type-2 diabetes. “Muscle is very
metabolically active, and it uses glucose, or blood sugar, for energy,”
says Mark Peterson, an assistant professor of physical medicine at the
University of Michigan.
During
a bout of resistance training, your muscles are rapidly using glucose,
and this energy consumption continues even after you’ve finished
exercising, Peterson says. For anyone at risk for metabolic
conditions—type-2 diabetes, but also high blood pressure, unhealthy
cholesterol levels and other symptoms of metabolic syndrome—strength
training is among the most-effective remedies, he says.
The article is here.
