3 New Rules to Reverse Diabetes
Updated: Apr. 15, 2021Recent guidelines from the American Diabetes Association advise that some new patients try healthy eating and exercise before they begin medication. Now, the latest science reveals that fine-tuning many long-held health habits may lead to even better results.
New update:
Don’t worry if it’s taking a while to slim down. In a 2012 review paper,
Sheri Colberg-Ochs, PhD, noted that exercise alone improved the ability
of previously sedentary, middle-aged adults to metabolize sugars,
regardless of whether they lost any weight. Their total cholesterol
dropped too.
New update:
Make it a good night’s sleep—sleep quality may matter as much to your
health as the number of hours of slumber you log. Research shows that
poor sleep affects your body’s ability to properly metabolize sugar and
disrupts the hormones that regulate your appetite, which can lead to weight gain and increase your diabetes risk.
Originally Published: October 11, 2012
Originally Published in Reader's Digest