People with diabetes may experience a variety of long-term complications if diabetes is not managed properly. Complications are more common and deadly is a heart attack and stroke. Besides other complications that may occur is damage to blood vessels in the retina of the eye (diabetic retinopathy) that can cause vision problems, abnormalities in kidney function that can cause kidney failure, so the patient must undergo dialysis (hemodialysis) and nerve damage that causes skin more frequently injured. Additionally injury / infection in patients with diabetes usually slow recovery because of high levels of sugar in the blood causing bacteria can thrive, resulting in some cases amputation is sometimes becoming one of the options to stop the spread of infection.
Importance of Exercise for People with DiabetesRegular exercise is very important for diabetics because it can control blood sugar levels and decreased body weight and blood pressure. People with diabetes who exercise regularly are also less likely to have a heart attack or stroke than those who exercise less.
The reason why exercise can help control blood sugar levels is due at the time of exercise, muscle cells work harder so that more need to burn sugar and oxygen into energy than at rest. Exercise also helps the work of insulin because the sugar in the blood flow into muscle cells for conversion to energy, so it automatically in your blood sugar levels will drop so that will ease the work of insulin.
Here are some other benefits of regular exercise for people with diabetes:
* Control your blood sugar, especially in type 2 diabetes, whereas for type 1 diabetes is still problematic.
* Pursue and improve cardiovascular disease risk factors are more common in people with diabetes, such as coronary heart disease (CHD), stroke and peripheral vascular disease.
* Assist weight loss program in patients with diabetes are also obese, especially if done in conjunction with dietary adjustments.
* Provide psychological benefits, regular exercise can improve physical fitness levels for improving the cardiovascular system, respiration, blood sugar control, so people feel fit, reduce anxiety of the illness, there is more pleasure and boost self-confidence and improve the quality of life.
* Reducing the need for the use of oral medication and insulin.
* To prevent the premature onset of diabetes, especially for people - people with a family history of diabetes or for the entry in the class of pre-diabetes.
Exercise is recommended for patients with diabetes is a low impact aerobic exercise and rithmis such as gymnastics, jogging, swimming and riding a bicycle, while the static resistance exercise is not recommended (such as lifting weights, etc.). Portion of the exercise should also be considered, excessive exercise would be detrimental to health, while too little exercise is not so useful. The determination of the portion of the exercise should pay attention to the exercise intensity, duration and frequency of training exercises
