People with diabetes should mix aerobics with weight training to get the best results in lowering blood sugar, s new study suggests. The combination worked best for weight loss to, compared to aerobics or weight trining alone.
Blodd sugar is fuel to muscles, and more sugar is burned during aerobic activity. Weight training builds more muscle, and both activities change muscle proteins in ways that enhance the process. The researchers goal was to thest three exercise programs that doctors could realistically recommend and patients could stick with U.S guidelines recommend aerobics and weight training combined for all adults.
The study was completed by 245 people with diabetes. Too much blood sugar can damage nerves, eyes, the heart and blood vessels. The researchers found that only the group that combined aerobics and weights both lowered their blood sugar and lost weight, although all three fitness groups reduced their waist sizes.
Fewer patients in the combo group started taking new diabetes drugs than in the other groups. Forty one percent of the patients in the combo group either decreased their diabetes medications or lowered their average blood sugar as measured by a common blood test, compared to 26 percent for weight only, 29 percent for aerobics only and 22 percent int the non exercise group.
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