Archive for November, 2007
Depressing news: According to Australian Government statistics,
“Everyone will, at some time in their life, be affected by depression, their own or someone else’s”.
Depression statistics
* Australian depression statistics are comparable to those of the US and the UK
* 15% of the population of most developed countries suffers severe depression
* Depressive disorders affect approximately 9.5% of the population aged 18 and older in any given year. This includes major depressive disorder, dysthymic disorder and bipolar disorder
* Pre-schoolers are the fastest-growing market for antidepressants. At least 4% of preschoolers are clinically depressed
* The rate of increase of depression among children is an astounding 23% per year
* 30% of women are depressed. Men’s figures were previously thought to be half that of women, but new estimates are higher
* 54% of people believe depression is a personal weakness
* 41% of depressed women are too embarrassed to seek help
* 80% of depressed people are not currently having any treatment
* 15% of depressed people commit suicide
* Depression will be the second largest killer after heart disease by 2020
* Studies show that depression is a contributory factor to fatal coronary disease
“It’s the sense of touch. In any real city, you walk, you know? You brush past people, people bump into you. In L.A., nobody touches you. We’re always behind this metal and glass. I think we miss that touch so much, that we crash into each other, just so we can feel something”
â” from the movie âCrashâ
When I read the statistics about depression, it really made me depressed. Realizing that one day in our lives, we will be affected by depression, our own or someone elseâs, is pretty shocking, donât you agree?
For a while, Iâve been thinking of ways to motivate my readers to live an inspiring life that will make a difference. Many people think that the way we can make a difference is by doing big things and I think we need to re-define the meaning of âbigâ. I think we can make a difference, a big difference, by changing the depression statistics in the world. One person at a time, we can teach how to put happiness in our hearts and chase away the darkness. And you are probably asking yourself, âAnd how do we do that with no budget, without the support of the government and without organizing ourselves in a formal way?â And I say we can do this by changing our own life and surroundings and, like a ripple effect, spread the word and make this world a better place for ourselves and our children.
I believe the reason depression is on the rise is because touch is on the drop. Babies get touched a lot from the day they are born, but every year of their life they are touched less and less. Some people think itâs inappropriate to hug a teenager or their parents, so they shake hands instead. Most people’s lifestyle is more stressful and includes fewer opportunities for physical contact than ever before. Twenty years ago, teachers used to hug and touch their students and that was fine with parents. Touch was a sign of caring. Nowadays, concerns about sexual harassment and inappropriate touching make people overly cautious and reluctant to touch others. As a result, many of us find ourselves starved for simple, casual, warm touch from our families, friends and colleagues.
There is a whole new field now called psychoneuroimmunology, or PNI for short. It claims that when you feel good and you love yourself and you are being touched and you feel loved, your immune system gets stronger. Touching builds up the immune system (they now call this âlibidinal refuellingâ). When you hug somebody, you literally recharge your and the other personâs libido, the powerful energy of the body.
New studies point to touch therapy as a way to overcome medical conditions, such as osteoarthritis and depression. Studies indicate that touch has a beneficial effect on our perception of pain, treatment of disease, as well as emotional and physical development. After touch therapy, like massage, there is a slow-down in the action of the hypothalamic area of the brain, which controls the âfight or flightâ response. Your body’s stress hormones drop and endorphins climb, leading to a decreased perception of pain and a greater feeling of well-being. If the touch comes from someone you have positive feelings about, like a friend, partner or loved one, you get the added benefit of a heightened sense of love and security. Sex, for that matter, is great touch therapy. Have sex a lot!
In a research on the effects of touch, librarians were instructed alternately to touch and not touch the hands of students as they handed back their library cards. The students were then interviewed. Those who had been touched reported far greater positive feelings about themselves, the library and the librarians than those who had not been touched. This occurred even though the touch was brief and the students did not even remember it!
Iâve been trying this with my clients for a long time and could see the enormous effect of hugs on their success. Some clients have managed, by adding more touch into their life, to stay off their anti-depressants and regain the control of their life, a small addition, which made a big difference.
Hugs can bring a great sense of connection and belonging into your life. Theyâre free and within reach. When you give, you also receive and all you need is 12 hugs a day for good emotional health.
The Be Happy in LIFE Hug Coupon (http://www.behappyinlife.com/images/hug_coupon.jpg) can help you when you need a hug – just show it to another person and request a hug in exchange for the coupon. Tell them to “cash” it when they need a hug and pass it on.
People with a touch deficit behave like porcupines. They reject touch and get into a cycle of disconnection and loneliness. We canât count virtual hugs (all you people sitting in front of the computer, beware) and we canât use hugs from yesterday to compensate for lack of hugs today. There is no such thing as Hug Credit! But simply counting your hugs every day will help keep you aware of the importance of touch. Better yet, itâs contagious!
We, at Be Happy in LIFE, want to stretch out our arms to you for a big world hug (remember: when we give, we receive) and send out 12 hugs to you with wishes for a wonderful year of being in touch with yourself, with nature and with the people around you.
Please forward this article to as many people as you can to make our world hug as big as possible (you still need 12 real hugs).
Print the Be Happy in LIFE Hug Counter (http://www.behappyinlife.com/images/count_your_hugs.jpg) and put it on your fridge or pin-board at home or work to keep remembering every hour and every day.
Hugs are a simple way to make a difference and make this world a better place. If everyone gives (and at the same time gets) 12 hugs a day and encourage all your hugged ones to do the same, all you, mathematicians, can calculate how fast we can make the world a better place.
Be happy in life!
Ronit
Ronit Baras is a life coach, educator, author, journalist, justice of peace and public speaker living in Brisbane, Australia, specializing in relationships and families and an expert on motivation for kids.
Pain evasion is an essential asset to anyone diagnosed with an illness that brings about pain such as cancer and arthritis, which are guaranteed to bring severe pain to a patient and makes it really difficult for an individual to maintain a sense of normality. Because everybody reacts to treatments in a different way, it is very important to consult with a physician to find the proper treatment for you.
Weakening diseases such as arthritis and cancer share a common connection when it comes to pain. Patient who experience arthritis often require physical or therapeutic exercise. This type of arthritis pain control helps to increase joint flexibility and muscle mobility. Cancer treatments often have the same affect, leaving the person feeling weak and powerless. Individuals respond to treatments based on how far the cancer has advanced, and pain evasion should be individualized.
It is important to set up a plan with your physician to develop a pain evasion plan if you are diagnosed with cancer, this will help you handle the changes that your body will experience as you take the treatments needed to eradicate the cancer from your body. As a result, when you first experience a pain in your body, you should inform your doctor where the pain is situated, how severe it is, how long the pain lasted, and if you experienced a return of it in the same position. This will allow them to set up solutions to help you deal with the pain.
The most important step is making note of where pain occurs in your body. For patients suffering from arthritis, pain more often than not occurs in the joints. For cancer patients, pain can take place wherever the tumour is situated. Occasionally this pain can spread. By making a pain diary you can help your doctor decide where the pain is taking place, how frequently it occurs and the severity of the pain, so that your doctor can begin the remedies to help alleviate it.
For people who suffer from arthritis, fortunately a large number medication is available to help ease the pain. Patient could have a number of different methods that can help build up their arthritis pain evasion plan. This could be including anti-inflammatory drugs along with therapeutic exercises. With cancer evasion, unfortunately doctors have to try different medications on a patient before they find the right remedy.
Pain evasion methods might need to include physical and emotional therapies like hot and cold massages, and also breathing methods are all used to help weak muscles. Emotional support is also very important when coping with the feeling of helplessness when patients feel when they can’t carry out simple task like dressing themselves.
The simple task of pain evasion can be a life-saving, but it is important to keep in mind that everyone will react to pain treatments in different ways, and that you may have to try quite a few remedies before finding the right one that works for you.
Pain evasion is essential for cancer treatment, because it can help to overcome the fear and worry experienced after such a serious diagnosis. Always remember to tell your doctor about the pain, and maintain constant communication with your doctor so that your doctor will help find a pain evasion method that will fit your condition, and this makes it possible to go back to a normal life as soon as possible.
Lionel Estridge, publisher of Zero to Hero newsletter; subscription is FREE. To subscribe go to http://www.lionel1.com/ or visit http://www.lionel1.com/pain_relief
Skin cancer is the most common form of skin cancer in humans. Skin cancer is also known as being the common form of cancer in America and generally develops in the epidermis which is the outermost layer of skin. This is when you will likely see a visible tumor.
There are actually three main types of skin cancer which include basal cell carcinoma, squamous cell carcinoma, as well as melanoma. Basal cell carcinomas and most types of squamous cell carcinomas are both slow growing and highly treatable, even more so if detected in the early stages.
On the other hand melanoma is one of the most serious forms of skin cancer mainly because it affects the deeper layers of skin and has a greater potential of spreading out to other tissues in your body. Squamous cell carcinoma also has the chances of spreading internally. There are more than one million estimated new cases of cancer each year with the annual rates constantly on the rise. This obviously has raised a large degree of concern for people all over the country.
There are different types of skin cancer treatments available right now, but prevention is the best thing you can do. One of the most common ways to get rid of skin cancer is excision skin surgery. You can also opt for another common treatment called mohs micrographic surgery where the area of the growth is numbed prior to the procedure.
Some have even estimated that nearly fifty percent of all Americans who live to be sixty five years old will develop skin cancer at least once. Skin cancer tends to show up on the head, face, neck, hands, and arms. The most dangerous type of skin cancer is melanoma, and luckily it is far less common. For localized melanoma the surviving rate for suffers is around ninety nine percent, while the survival rates for regional and distant stage diseases are at sixty five and fifteen.
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Food is an essential component of anyone’s life. The selection of foods becomes even more important for a good diabetes and nutrition program. In the North American culture, poor food choices have culminated in a population of obese individuals, many are pre-diabetic, others have type 2 diabetes and some have gestational diabetes. In all of these cases a proper diabetes and nutrition food management plan, can reduce weight by the recommended 5 to 7 percent. A diabetes and nutrition program can even help lower your blood sugar level and improve your general state of health.
It is not sufficient to simply rely on your insulin shots or medication prescribed by your doctor. They cannot do all the work. You will have to learn to regulate your food intake.
With the abundance of food available to us, sometimes it is not easy to choose wisely. That piece of chocolate cake can be much more tempting than having a small fruit salad in natural juices for dessert. A trip to your favorite fast food restaurant is more inviting than bothering to cook a meal on the evening that you come home tired from work. Perhaps all you want to do is curl up on the couch and not even bother to drag the family out for a meal. In this situation the idea of calling the restaurant to order that fried chicken or greasy hamburgers is oh so tempting.
However does it necessarily stop there? Do you limit eating out or ordering in to once a week, twice a week, or do you not even consider how many times you do this. What about breakfast, do you have a solid nutritious breakfast or do wake up already on the run, and grab a donut on your way out the door, or not even bother to eat breakfast at all? Yes we know, you are busy, busy, busy, but those calories are empty, empty, empty. There is very little nutritious value in much of the food choices you are presently making. Yet, these same foods are loaded in calories designed to keep the extra weight on. They are fatty and loaded with sugar.
Sometimes the idea of a diet scares people. They look at it as depriving themselves of the foods they love. A diet first of all is not a system of deprivation; it is a way of life. Do not look at it as depriving yourself of the foods you love, but rather look at it as giving yourself the healthy life style that you deserve. Do not look at is as losing anything, you are gaining a healthier you and in doing so, you are adding precious years to your life.
To start this journey to a healthier you, begin by learning how to make healthy food choices. A diabetes and nutrition program is designed to show you the proper foods to eat and then help you regulate the amount of food you eat in order to keep your blood sugar levels and weight in control and at normal levels. Included in this information you may also find good health smart recipes that are not only nutritious but delicious.
Once you learn the proper foods to eat you will also learn that you can extend your diabetes and nutrition management to outside the home. You will learn how to eat the proper foods when you are visiting friends and family, or going out to eat in restaurants. With a proper diabetes and nutrition and management program you can lead a normal life and enjoy much of the same foods you have always eaten; only now you will know how to do it the right way.
About Author:<br>
Carol Roach, M.Ed, B.A. is an author publisher and professional writer working with www.exquisitewriting.com. She hails from Montreal, Quebec, Canada, and specializes in psychology and health-related topics. She also has diabetes. Carol recommends Fit4D (formerly Fitness4Diabetics) as a <a href="http://www.fit4d.com/">health coaching service for those affected by diabetes.</a>
People suffering from type 1 and type 2 diabetes often feel alone in their battle against the effects of the disease. Rest assured, they do not stand on their own. Diabetes experts are here to assist and help along the way.
Perhaps you are learning for the first time that you have the disease. What to do, where to go, how do you carry on? These questions are important and you need someone to turn to. Yes, there is family and friends, but family and friends do not always have the answers you are looking for. That is where diabetes experts come in. Diabetes experts can give you the medical information that is necessary to deal with diabetes. They provide you with information on the importance of good nutrition, exercise, adjusting and enriching your life. They explain the fundamentals of diabetes and how you can overcome many of the difficulties as they present themselves.
Another important feature to look for is how accessible diabetes experts really are? Do you have to go out of your way to visit them? Can you get the information you need on the internet? These issues become very important in the early days of your illness before you have started an aggressive treatment plan. You may be too sick or too tired to visit diabetes experts regularly. Having information literally at your fingertips is important in the beginning and well into your treatment plan even after you are feeling better and doing the things you love to do.
Internet access to webinars and other important sources of information is the answer for a very sick or inactive person or a very busy personâs need. Internet access eases the pressure of getting the much needed information you need as quickly as you need it.
Supplying information on diabetes is but one of the functions of diabetes experts. Anyone can open a book and read or select articles upon the internet to read, diabetes experts on the other hand, can serve as a personal coach to guide you through the process of adjusting to your condition and making improvements.
Not everyone will be affected by diabetes in quite the same way. Just as the disease has different degrees of severity, there are also different people with different needs trying to cope with the illness.
You are a unique individual and how you live your life is different to how your uncle John may live his life. Yet, both of you have diabetes and both of you have special needs. Uncle John may be concerned that he can no longer play a good game of golf; you may be dealing with how to get up in the morning without feeling ill. You may be worrying about how to carry on during the normal course of the day.
This is where a good coach will take the time to do an assessment of your needs while taking in your medical, physical and emotional requirements. A good coach will provide you with medical information and design a fitness and nutrition program to assist in controlling your diabetes and promote good health. A good coach will be there for you when you need help.
Diabetes coaching is a commitment; not a passing fancy. Diabetes coaches are committed to being accessible. They can provide internet coaching, and one to one coaching. They will provide personal scheduled telephone calls as well as assess to other coaches and experts when needed. Diabetes coaches can provide referrals to other experts such as personal trainers, chart your progress and results, and open up a support system where you can interact with other individuals who are living and coping with diabetes.
The key is to know that you are not alone; there is help out there from people who really do understand. Having the comfort of knowing that you have help and support at your finger tips is half the battle. Knowing that you are taken seriously and no question is too insignificant or no fear is left unaddressed will help you to ease into a healthier physical and mental life style. Diabetes experts can help you help yourself.
About Author:<br>
Carol Roach, M.Ed, B.A. is an author publisher and professional writer working with www.exquisitewriting.com. She hails from Montreal, Quebec, Canada, and specializes in psychology and health-related topics. She also has diabetes. Carol recommends Fit4D (formerly Fitness4Diabetics) as a <a href="http://www.fit4d.com/">health coaching service for those affected by diabetes.</a>
Diabetes and exercise is sometimes considered a cruel combination for the diabetic person, suffering from overweight, bloating, swelling, dizziness, and general malaise. As a diabetic you might ask, “how can I exercise when I feel this way? I am just too tired.” If these questions crossed your mind, rest assured exercise can help and more importantly you can do it!
The first thing that comes to mind when we think of exercise is working out until we drop: aerobics, jogging, or spending grueling hours at the gym. We get discouraged just thinking about it.
The good news is that exercise simply requires that we increase our physical activity, we move, we do not sit at the computer or television all day long. Everything we do that requires movement is exercise regardless of what it is. Instead of thinking exercise is something we hate, we can learn to change our mindset to begin to think that exercise is a fundamental part of life and something we can love to do.
The key is to start slowly and to build up on our successes. The nice part about it is that since exercise is movement it need not be a grueling workout to get the job done. Take a walk with your dog or your best friend and enjoy a wonderful outdoor experience. Instead of taking your car two blocks to the grocery store to pick up small items, take the walk, exercise your muscles, and keep your heart strong.
Whenever you can, take the stairs instead of the elevator or escalator. Even this exercise can be done in increments. If you live on the eighth floor for example, you might start by taking one flight of stairs and then the elevator, until this you have built up enough stamina to try the second flight of stairs and so on. Before you know it the pounds will be melting off and you will feel more energetic than perhaps you have felt in years.
Most people enjoy listening to music. Why not take it one step further and dance to what you are listening to? If you really enjoy dancing you can join a dance club, learn new moves, go out dancing with your friends and have a good time. However, if you are the bashful type or the type that falls over your own two feet don’t let that stop you; dance in the privacy of your own home. Dance into a new healthy vibrant you! Diabetes and exercise, diabetes and dance, doesn’t that sound a lot better?
The above was just two examples of adding exercise to your existing situation. The key is to change your life style. Do it slowly, don’t rush; enjoy the experience. Diabetes and exercise is not a combination package to make you miserable but one to make you healthier and happier. Once you begin to increase your exercise level you will become more agile, flexible feel less pain and lose weight. Whereas before you were too tired to do the things you liked to do, you will find yourself wanting to do more and more. Perhaps it was swimming, or bowling or gardening, you will once again feel strong and healthy enough to enjoy these activities.
The Diabetes and exercise combination also has other health benefits. With an increase in exercise, you will lower your blood sugar level, maintain healthy cholesterol and blood pressure levels, improve circulation, strengthen bones, joint muscles, lose weight, and increase heart, and lung capacity. Monitoring your diabetes and exercise program can also help improve your quality of life even if you have never been active or exercised before.
About Author:<br>
Carol Roach, M.Ed, B.A. is an author publisher and professional writer working with www.exquisitewriting.com. She hails from Montreal, Quebec, Canada, and specializes in psychology and health-related topics. She also has diabetes. Carol recommends Fit4D (formerly Fitness4Diabetics) as a <a href="http://www.fit4d.com/">health coaching service for those affected by diabetes.</a>
Every once in a while, we run into a truly innovative concept, with such a profound impact, yet from such a simple idea. All of us, as human beings on this planet, have the same worries, hopes, dreams, and aspirations. Yet, with the everyday struggle that life and its problems seem to give us, we tend to forget that we need to take time and take care of our self, or our Earthly Vessel.
Itâs amazing that we can have a huge problem, yet instead of facing it head on, we turn on the television hoping to forget about it for an hour or so as though this would help ease our pain. Weâve become so involved in trying to help others through their trials and tribulations, yet sometimes we forget to take care of ours.
There is an arsenal of tools available on the market today to help us cope with the stress that life throws our way. Even Oprah uses a journal to express her innermost feelings and keep in touch with her true self. Peace of mind and well-being could be as simple as reading from an art print with an inspirational message at the precise moment in our life when motivation is needed.
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Understanding the right food to eat can be quite puzzling, because most people lack meal plans diet information. Universally, there are reports about what food is or isn’t good for you, and advice for pregnancy diabetic diet, breakfast diet, low diet, cholesterol diabetic diet, low calorie diabetic diet, diabetic type 1, diet vegetables and diabetes diet cure, among many others have become come in reference to what works and what does not work to alleviate the result of improper eating.
However, some vital values have shown to be better than the fad diets, and have been proven to be most effective in combating all types of diabetes. Below are some tips on making food choices that are healthy for you and your whole family.
* Consume plenty vegetables and fruits. The best are non-starchy vegetables. Carrots, broccoli, spinach and green beans daily are in this range of non-starchy vegetables.
* Whole grain foods are better than processed grain products. I recommend that you eat brown rice and whole wheat spaghetti; they are better than processed grain products.
* Do not overlook regular eating of beans and lentils.
* Fish, eaten 2-3 times per week is good for your health.
* When you have to eat meat, lean meats, thatâs the “loin” parts of both beef and pork donât contain cholesterol and fat, eat those. Do not eat chicken and turkey along with their oily skins
* Skim milk, non-fat yogurt and non-fat cheese are what you should add to your meals.
* Drinking water and calorie-free “diet” drinks is better than regular sugar-sweetened drinks.
* Do not use solid fats; they are high in both trans and saturated fats. Fat is your enemy because it is high in calories. Since weight and diabetes go hand in hand, you should watch your fat consumptions..
* Avoid irregular and uncontrolled snacking of especially fried snack products, and such desserts like full-fat ice cream.
* Adequate calories intake is very essential for good health, even too much of health improving foods leads to overweight.
Meal plans & a healthy diet are the basis of a healthy life. Diabetes in most cases result from lack of meal plans that culminate into unhealthy diet. If you want to lose weight, add some weight or remain as you are, regular and planned meals and eating right diet will help, and also keep to the barest minimum the risk of diabetes, heart disease and stroke.
<a href="http://diabeticdietfood.blogspot.com/">Save your life with simple easy to follow food guide </a>that
repairs your pancreas and removes diabetes. Read more at <a href="http://odidis.internetmosaic.com/">Diabetic
Diet Food Helpful Information</a>
Understanding the right food to eat can be quite puzzling, because most people lack meal plans diet information. Universally, there are reports about what food is or isn’t good for you, and advice for pregnancy diabetic diet, breakfast diet, low diet, cholesterol diabetic diet, low calorie diabetic diet, diabetic type 1, diet vegetables and diabetes diet cure, among many others have become come in reference to what works and what does not work to alleviate the result of improper eating.
However, some vital values have shown to be better than the fad diets, and have been proven to be most effective in combating all types of diabetes. Below are some tips on making food choices that are healthy for you and your whole family.
* Consume plenty vegetables and fruits. The best are non-starchy vegetables. Carrots, broccoli, spinach and green beans daily are in this range of non-starchy vegetables.
* Whole grain foods are better than processed grain products. I recommend that you eat brown rice and whole wheat spaghetti; they are better than processed grain products.
* Do not overlook regular eating of beans and lentils.
* Fish, eaten 2-3 times per week is good for your health.
* When you have to eat meat, lean meats, thatâs the “loin” parts of both beef and pork donât contain cholesterol and fat, eat those. Do not eat chicken and turkey along with their oily skins
* Skim milk, non-fat yogurt and non-fat cheese are what you should add to your meals.
* Drinking water and calorie-free “diet” drinks is better than regular sugar-sweetened drinks.
* Do not use solid fats; they are high in both trans and saturated fats. Fat is your enemy because it is high in calories. Since weight and diabetes go hand in hand, you should watch your fat consumptions..
* Avoid irregular and uncontrolled snacking of especially fried snack products, and such desserts like full-fat ice cream.
* Adequate calories intake is very essential for good health, even too much of health improving foods leads to overweight.
Meal plans & a healthy diet are the basis of a healthy life. Diabetes in most cases result from lack of meal plans that culminate into unhealthy diet. If you want to lose weight, add some weight or remain as you are, regular and planned meals and eating right diet will help, and also keep to the barest minimum the risk of diabetes, heart disease and stroke.
<a href="http://diabeticdietfood.blogspot.com/">Save your life with simple easy to follow food guide </a>that
repairs your pancreas and removes diabetes. Read more at <a href="http://odidis.internetmosaic.com/">Diabetic
Diet Food Helpful Information</a>
Exercise is an integral part of life for everyone. This becomes especially true in the case of a person with diabetes, in which case it is part of the treatment of diabetes as well. For a diabetic exercise should be a daily routine. Daily exercise would help a diabetic person to have good blood sugar control in addition to making him or her physically fit. Daily exercise also would make a diabetic person less susceptible for a heart attack and nerve damage from diabetes.
Exercise improves blood sugar control
Exercise provides great benefits to diabetics and it plays an excellent role in controlling the blood sugar. A properly designed exercise schedule in combination with a healthy diet is the recipe for success for a person with diabetes. When you do physical activity your muscles take up the glucose from the blood circulation and use it for the muscular activity thus maintaining a normal blood glucose level. Exercise also increases the tissue sensitivity to insulin making the effect of insulin more effective thus further helping to reduce the blood glucose level.
Exercise reduces weight
Exercise is also helps people with diabetes to reduce weight. Weight gain is closely associated with type-2 diabetes. Exercise decreases the fat stores and thus decreases the extra demand that is put on the already compromised beta cells.
Exercise decreases the need for diabetic medication
Exercise reduces insulin resistance of the tissues and makes body tissue more responsive to the action of insulin. If you have only mild diabetes, a combination of exercise and dietary control may be the only form of intervention needed for your diabetes control. Even in persons who have more severe degree of diabetes exercise would decrease the need for diabetic medication because of decreased insulin resistance.
Exercise improves circulation
Most of the complications that are associated with diabetes are related to impairment of circulation that is caused by diabetes. This is especially true for those who develop diabetic foot as a complication of diabetes. Exercise improves circulation especially to arms and legs and thus may prevent development of diabetes related complications.
Exercise improves cholesterol level
Heart attack (myocardial infarction) is one of the major causes of death in people with diabetes. Exercise would increase the good cholesterol (HDL cholesterol) and lower the bad cholesterol (LDL cholesterol). Exercise also reduces the triglyceride levels. By improving the cholesterol values exercise provide increase protection from heart attack diabetic patients.
Exercise lowers blood pressure
Diabetic patients are highly prone to complications of high blood pressure. Regular exercise would lower blood pressure and thus may protect diabetic patients from hypertension (high blood pressure) and its complications.
It is clear from the above discussion that exercise is a very crucial component in the life of a person with diabetes. Regular exercise, in combination with a healthy diabetic meal would prove to be of significant benefit for a people with diabetes.
Author of this article is a freelance health information writer. Author contributes articles to various websites including <a href="http://www.diabetes-watch-blog.com/">Diabetes watch blog</a> and <a href="http://medicineworld.org/">Medicineworld</a>.
You may read more about <a href="http://medicineworld.org/medicine/endocrinology/type2diabetes.html">type-2 diabetes</a> at this webpage.
