Exercise
Good for maintaining a healthy body
Helps delay or prevent the harmful effects of disease
Beneficial to improve the body’s stress capacity
1. Physiological effects of exercise
Uptake and use of glucose and fatty acids by muscle tissue
Use of energy to lower blood sugar and blood lipids
Sympathetic nerve excitation makes liver glycogen and fat
Provide energy to promote the use of stored energy
Increase the sensitivity of insulin receptors to insulin Reduce insulin resistance
Increased heart rate and respiration, increased circulating blood volume Increased compensatory capacity of heart and lung function
Enhance the exercise capacity and flexibility of the muscles
Improves and regulates central nervous tension
Physical and mental health
2.Choose the way and time of exercise
Choose an exercise method that is suitable for you and easy to adhere to (e.g., 120 heartbeats/minute, half an hour or so)
Ensure a certain amount of exercise time (daily, 3-4 times a week)
Pay attention to the coordination of changes in the amount of glucose-lowering drugs, exercise and diet. (Avoid the peak effect of glucose-lowering drugs) Prevent hypoglycemia
Assessment of the amount of exercise
Appropriate amount of exercise: slight sweating and relaxation after exercise; slight feeling of weakness, which can disappear after rest; full of energy the next day.
3.Caution
(1) Before exercise
Physical health assessment (relevant examination)
Make good preparation activities (objects, physical activities)
(2) When exercising
Exercise dress loose and comfortable, protect the skin and feet
Start activities from light and gradually strong, combined with static and dynamic
Hiking and long hours should be informed to family members, with name cards
(3) Cases in which exercise is not appropriate
①Acute complications of diabetes mellitus
②Diabetic retinopathy, with the tendency of fundus hemorrhage
③Cardiac and pulmonary insufficiency, uncontrolled high blood pressure
④Acute stage of heart and brain infarction (newly discovered)
⑤ Other serious concomitant diseases and complications
Make full use of public facilities to treat each individual; pay attention to the safety and effectiveness of exercise; choose appropriate exercise equipment
Individualized and appropriate
Gradual and persistent
Persistence is important
If there are no serious complications, it is advisable to encourage appropriate physical activity, and light or obese patients can be combined with sports therapy, which can help lower blood sugar. To educate patients about diabetes to obtain their long-term close cooperation.