Exercise Can Prevent Type 2 Diabetes

Today, millions of new people become affected by type 2 diabetes every year. Diabetes ranks seventh among the leading causes of death in the United States and is causes more deaths than breast cancer and AIDS combined. Most people don't know how deadly this disease is. Weight loss is a primary goal towards preventing the disease. Therefore, almost every day companies introduce new medicines, pills, and diet plans that promise weight loss. These techniques are not always effective and they can be extremely expensive. However, there is an inexpensive old stand-by called “exercise” that has been proven over and over to reduce and control weight. Exercise is the most offered suggestion by doctors to prevent adult onset diabetes. People have to become educated in health and exercise to understand how important it is to lead a healthy lifestyle and prevent diseases such as diabetes.

Many large companies today are showing countless advertisements that promote an unhealthy lifestyle. These advertisements have influenced our culture and caused the world to only care about the pleasures in life, like eating unhealthy foods, smoking, and drinking excessively. The American Obesity Association has stated that all of these factors have caused nearly 64 percent of Americans to become overweight. In fact, the American Heart Association (AHA) equates the lack of exercise with smoking, high blood pressure, and high cholesterol levels, which are significant risk factors for developing diabetes. However, just having some sort of exercise at least three times a week can dramatically reduce the consequences that these actions have upon our bodies.

Numerous studies have shown that regular exercise reduces the risk of diabetes and many other complica...

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...gar level was at an enormous 350 mg/dL. The normal blood sugar reading should be less than 140. He himself said, “I was a train wreck.” But since receiving his diagnosis, he has started over. Since then, he has lost 140 pounds and his blood sugar levels are around normal. He said that the biggest factor to his success is exercise.

In the present day, people are not concerned about exercise, but they should be. Research has proven that exercise is needed and the only way to reduce the risk of becoming infected with diabetes. The only way to get society in good health again is to get the people that are inactive doing something. Something has to be done and everyone can help in their own way. Encourage others that exercising is the only way that will truly benefit everyone. Benefits that will not only help them for the time being, but for the entirety of their lives.