Exercise and Fat Burning

According to the article, "Participants exercised 60 min/day at 70% VO2peak for 10 consecutive days on a cycle ergometer. . . Subjects were initially permitted to take a rest break (5 min) during exercise; by day 5 all subjects exercised continuously."

Thanks for pointing out some of the great benefits of exercise for people

with diabetes. It may not be as effective as simple dieting (eating a lot less!)

for losing weight, but exercise has the ability to keep your BGs always within

normal range, even after a big (but rare) meal- IF you follow an effective

exercise routine afterwards. In fact it has the ability to ALWAYS keep the

BGs in the normal range, if you do enough every day- a claim which

cannot be made for any drug that I know.

I believe that doing vigorous exercise for shorter periods, is probably as

good as doing less strenous exercise longer. In either case you BGs and

metabolism return to normal function after doing it. Especially if the

vigorous exercise is directed at burning belly-fat.

In other words if you do enough exercise to keep your BGs and metabolism

fuctioning almost normal (any BG spike to be of very short duration),

then there should be NO complications from your diabetes.

Of course this is easier said that done- but as you pointed out this

condition has successfully been controlled and even reversed by enough

people, to make this theory pausible.

   I realize not everyone can do vigorous exercise, because of medical

conditions, but if anyone can- I think they should.

               Regards,

               Joe