Diabetes Information

Regular exercise, whatever the type may be, helps to build a healthy body, and a healthy body is a place for a healthy mind. A person who exercise regularly feels healthier, sleeps better, feels more energetic and builds up confidence. This is more so in a diabetic person. Exercise helps to ease strains and tensions one may feel, both because of illness and the stresses of every day life. And more importantly it helps in regulating the normal blood glucose, the main cause of illness.
Though the above are definite benefits of exercise, the diabetic person has to be careful and more cautious about some of the complications the diabetic may face. They include :
1. Hypoglycemic episodes, if adjustments are not made in timing the exercise, the intensity of the exercise and adjustment in medication.
2. Risk of cardiac complications.
3. In some, the risk of retinal bleeding in the eyes.
4. Excessive vacillation in the systolic blood pressure.
5. Some injuries, if not careful.
6. Rise in body temperature.
In spite of the possibilities of the above risks, exercise has over-whelming benefits for a person with diabetes. As advised earlier a regular medical check up will minimize these risks.

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