If you have diabetes, you can keep yourself healthy and your blood glucose on target by being physically active every day. Moving your body burn some of the calories you take in and helps you keep your weight and blood glucose where you want them.

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Physical activity has many benefits for your health if you have diabetes and/or heart disease. Being active can help prevent both of these diseases. Check your activity IQ with the following quiz.

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There are ways to tell when it’s time to move ahead in your activities. For example, when you can lift a weight more than 15 times, you know it’s time to add more weight in your strength exercises.


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Physical activity is an essential part of a healthy lifestyle. In addition to improving your general health and well being, increasing your daily level of activity may help you to better manage your diabetes. It can reduce insulin resistance – this means that your body can use insulin more efficiently.

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We can’t tell you exactly how many pounds to lift or how steep a hill you should climb to reach a moderate or vigorous level of exercise. What is easy for one person often strenuous for another.

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Turn on the TV or the radio, open the newspaper or a magazine and you're sure to hear news about the growing obesity and diabetes epidemic. Most of us already know—and the research confirms—the cause of this growing problem:


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If you heard about a pill that would help you live longer, feel better, look better, be healthier and help prevent Alzheimer’s disease and some cancers, would you take it?  Well, there is something that will do all of these things, but it is not about taking a pill.


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As someone living with diabetes, you probably have already heard that physical activity is an important part of your daily diabetes management. But did you know that not being active for as little as two days can make your body less sensitive to insulin?

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Many people abandon warm-ups and stretching after they finish organized sports in school. Yet since flexibility decreases with age, stretching is much more important in later years, especially for preventing tears to muscles and tendons.

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Research has shown that obesity and inactivity is actually the second leading cause of preventable death in the United States. About 400,000 Americans die each year from this cause, compared to 435,000 from the leading cause—tobacco use.

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Walking can prevent or delay type 2 diabetes. Walking can lower your risk for heart disease, osteoporosis, blood pressure and other diseases. Walking can help you lose weight and keep it off.

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