The essential elements to improve the health of your heart are diet, exercise, smoking and stress.
Physical Exercise Reduces Death Risk for Diabetics
New research shows that moderate exercise, such as walking can significantly reduce the risk of death for people with Type 2 diabetes. The study followed over 3,300 people and measured their level of physical exercise with mortality to find that moderate exercise reduced the chance of cardiovascular death by 9%, and more vigorous exercise reduced the total chance of death by 33%.
Diabetics have long been advised to take regular exercise, especially cardiovascular exercise, in order to improve their overall health and reduce their risk of death. This study adds support to the idea that exercise is the best way to enhance health and avoid the downward health spiral associated with diabetes.
Type 2 diabetes is a completely reversible disease; since it's more like a physiological effect caused by the consumption of refined carbohydrates and lack of physical exercise. It's not as something from the outside has got into your body and given it this terrible disease. Diabetes is simply a metabolic consequence that happens as a natural outcome of your lifestyle choices.
This means you can reverse this disease simply by changing your lifestyle choices. Physical exercise is one component of this, and diet and nutrition is the other. By altering your food choice so that you avoid foods that cause diabetes, soft drinks, refined carbohydrates, added sugars, refined white flour, and other similar foods, you can reshape the way your metabolism responds to food. Good food to eat include: fruits and vegetables, nuts and seeds, soy products, and superfoods like spirulina, wheat grass, broccoli sprouts, seaweed.
The conclusion of this research is that it shows very little exercise is needed to achieve a moderate reduction in the risk of death for diabetics, just 30 minutes a day of exercise on a bicycle, jogging, or swimming, can have a significantly positive impact on your overall health.