Movement Helps to Fight Against Diabetes

German study found that most people with diabetes can tackle the disease effectively through self-effort.

The specialist sports science and the supervisor of the study, Gerhard Huber, the diabetes disease "can escape it."

The expert added that "the positive impact of movement on most of the diseases known .. is that sport often help to disrupt the course of the disease or a positive impact on the general sense of the patient .. but with regard to diabetes, the movement sufficient that can bring the clock back already."

Huber took over supervision of the study which was commissioned by DEK of health insurance in collaboration with the German Federation of Sports and the remedial courses were offered specializing in movement and sport for people with diabetes in nine German cities. Participated in the study of 250 patients with the disease.
Improved performance
The expert pointed out that the durability of the participants in the study and perseverance have been limited dramatically, saying that the power of their performance did not exceed one third the power of healthy peers is that their performance has improved over the ten weeks to more than 50%. "We know from other studies that the movement reduce the level of regular sugar in a sustainable manner."

Huber and student health insurance companies in Germany by applying the results of this study, saying, "We must learn to diabetics that integrate movement and sports in their daily lives."

And saw the Hopper that the current health system in Germany does not focus on this aspect in the treatment, which wasted a lot of opportunities for treatment of patients with diabetes whose numbers are increasing continuously, adding that doctors rely on the large number of drugs used by doctors to treat diabetics without complaining patient or insurance company of these drugs, "Everybody's happy system approach."

The German expert to the need to exercise the doctor put pressure on patients to get them to move, at the same time he has to "give them advice and to make them offers treatment available, but it is not yet possible to include the sessions of sport in the bill for treatment provided to insurance companies."

Hooper felt that gyms are not Special correct address for diabetics, who number around 6.4 million patients at the level of Germany.
He said that these halls dedicated to those who want to at best get rid of some grease accumulated in the body, "The understanding of our patients want to cut the fat they have and the formulation of a comprehensive way of life."

Last Update
4/29/2011 5:45:25 AM