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Both aerobic and
resistance exercise is the way to maximize the
effects of exercise on blood glucose control in type
2 diabetes. This week we focus on exercise and
diabetes.
Enjoy good health,
Namita Nayyar, AFI |
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If you're over 40 and have any family history of
heart disease, take heart! A new speedy scan warns patients of cardiac problems
before they have a heart attack. This test could save your life. Most heart
attacks are the first and last warning a person gets. The newly devised test is
the electron beam tomography (EBT) that takes 3D pictures that point out calcium
in coronary arteries, a known predictor of heart disease. The test is not
offered everywhere yet so if you qualify, ask your doctor where it's available.
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Look
Up in Hope
An automobile accident ten days before high school
graduation left Shane Vermoort classified as a quadriplegic. All his life Shane
had wanted to be a doctor. But was it possible for him as a quadriplegic - or
was it a really impossible dream?
Shane went through a year of rehabilitation and
then went to Southern Illinois University, where he received a B.A. in
physiology. His goal was medical school, but he was rejected time and again by
medical schools all over America.
Eventually he was accepted at the Medical College
of Georgia. He excelled in his preparation and received the Clinical
Neuroscience Award, was elected the president of the Medical Honor Society, and
became the first student to graduate from the college in a wheelchair.
Shane says " People have a tendency to reflect on
what we don't have. If people could just look into the mirror and focus on
good things, they would be a lot better off." Always, Look up in hope
and make the best of what you have.
Note: WF Members receive motivation like
this in their e-mail box every Monday morning! Those of you looking for added
motivation, can go ahead to download Free motivational Wallpaper Changer at
http://www.womenfitness.net/downloads.htm
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"Your hopes, dreams and aspirations are legitimate.
They are trying to take you airborne, above the clouds,
above the storms, if you only let them."
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William
James |
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SOUFFL� ORANGE SEMOLINA
Serves: 4
Ingredients:
150g /1/4 cup semolina
600 ml 2/1/2 cups semi skimmed milk
30 ml /2 tbsp light muscovado sugar
1 large orange
1 egg white
Directions:
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Preheat the oven to 200 c. Place the semolina in a nonstick pan with the
milk and sugar. Stir over a moderate heart until thickened and smooth.
Remove from the heart.
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2 Grate a few long shreds of orange rind from the orange and save for
decoration. Finely grate the remaining rind. Cut all the peel and white pith
from the orange and remove the segments. Stir into the semolina with the
orange rind.
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3 Whisk the egg white until stiff but not dry then fold lightly and evenly
into the mixture. Spoon into a 1 litre ovenproof dish and bake for 15-20
minutes until risen and golden brown. Serve immediately.
Nutritional Information: (per serving)
Energy 158kcals
Fat 2.67 g
Saturated Fat1.54g
Cholesterol 10.5 mg
Fibre 0.86g |
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Diabetes and Exercise
In a new randomized controlled trial, both aerobic and resistance exercise
improved glycemic/blood sugar control in people with type 2 diabetes. The
greatest improvements came from combined aerobic and resistance training.
The study included 251 adults, between ages 39 and 70, who were not exercising
regularly and had type 2 diabetes. Participants were assigned to one of four
groups: performing 45 minutes aerobic training three times per week, 45 minutes
of resistance training three times per week, 45 minutes each of both three times
per week, or no exercise.
Both the aerobic and resistance training groups had improved blood sugar control
A1c value decreased by about 0.5 percent. The group that did both kinds of
exercise had about twice as much improvement as either other group alone - A1c
value decreased by 0.97 percent compared to the control group. The control group
that did not exercise had no change in A1c value.
The bottom line is that doing both aerobic and resistance exercise is the way to
maximize the effects of exercise on blood glucose control in type 2 diabetes.
Exercise is an inexpensive pill that could decrease the hemoglobin A1c value by
1 percentage point, reduce cardiovascular death by 25 percent, and substantially
improve functional capacity (strength, endurance, and bone density).
Click here, to
read the complete article on
Diabetes and Exercise. |
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