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A study of type 1 diabetics suggests that walking for a few minutes every half hour can help control blood sugar.
According to the results of a small trial conducted for the benefit of the British Diabetes Association, a recent study revealed that walking for three minutes every half hour can help lower blood sugar.
In this study of 32 people with type 1 diabetes, walking for a few minutes every half hour helped control their blood sugar levels.
Diabetes British says “simple, short-term measures” can provide easy and cheap changes to help people with diabetes.
More than 40,000 people in the UK have type 1 diabetes.
When any body has diabetes, the body stops producing insulin, which leads to high blood sugar and the need to get some insulin by injection.
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Elizabeth Robertson, director of research at the Diabetes British Society, which funded the study, says people with type 1 diabetes who get outside and walk every day improve their health.
Robertson added: “It’s incredibly encouraging, and the research findings are simple and practical, such as changing your phone conversations while you walk, or taking a short walk every half hour, setting a phone alarm to avoid sitting, etc. In the long term, this can help manage stress levels. .” blood sugar.”
In the short term, diabetes can lead to further complications, including kidney failure, eye problems and heart attacks.
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Diabetes can lead to complications including kidney failure, eye problems and heart attacks.
Lead researcher Dr Matthew Campbell, from the University of Sunderland, said he was surprised by what the study revealed, particularly with little walking.
For some people with type 1 diabetes, short-term exercise is necessary as a first step toward greater physical activity, while for others it is an example of taking steps to control blood sugar levels. the blood
In the early stages of the study, which involved 32 adults with type 1 diabetes, participants sat for two periods of 7 hours each.
In one of the two periods, they sat down, in the other they walked for three minutes every half hour, and their blood sugar levels were monitored continuously for 48 hours, while they ate the same food and the same amounts. Seven hours maintain the same percentage of insulin in their body.
Walking in this way reduced the level of sugar in the blood by 6.9 mmol, while the usual level was 8.2 mmol.
The authors of the study hope to conduct a larger and more comprehensive study on the same subject.
“It’s simple. A short walk during the day helps most people control their blood sugar,” says Dr. Campbell.
Diabetes is a chronic disease that causes blood sugar levels to become too high, and there are two types of it.
- Type 1: The immune system attacks and destroys insulin-producing cells.
- The second type occurs when the body stops producing enough insulin or when the cells responsible for receiving insulin in the body stop responding to it.
Type 2 diabetes is more common.
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