Diabetes Diet and Exercise for Diabetes

Diabetes and Exercise
Diabetics know that diet plays an important part in the management of their ailment, even if many do not actually practice careful eating. Now scientists* say that exercise also plays a part.

"...more emphasis is needed to ....incorporate physical activity as part of standard medical care in patients with diabetes," they say, after studying comparisons between those who exercised and those who didn't in nationwide surveys. It was clear to them that patients who are more physically active fared better.

".... physical activity 'and diet] are 'both] important contributors to 'control of their diabetes,] they noted.

*Drs. Casteneda, Tucker et al, USDA Human Nutrition Research Center, Tufts U., 711 Washington St., Boston, MA 02111, at the Annual Meeting of FASEB (an umbrella organization of nutritionists, pathologists, immunologists, molecular biologists, etc.,) Orlando, FL. April, 2001.