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Lose Weight and Your Blood Sugar Levels Will Fall
Posted by admin in Prescription Diabetes Drugs on May 16th, 2010
As type 2 diabetes rates continue to skyrocket, experts bicker over which new cutting edge treatment in the pipeline will be best for people struggling with their blood sugar levels.
Luckily, you don’t have to wait for any sort of sugar level breakthrough. That’s because there’s an extremely effective approach already out there that works leagues better than any drug, powder, or supplement could ever hope… losing weight.
Relearn High Blood Sugar:
In the last decade or so, there have been remarkable advances that have allowed scientists to finally understand what’s going on inside the body of someone with type 2 diabetes. One of the most striking discoveries has been the crucial role of inflammation on glucose levels.
Although inflammation damages the entire body, its deleterious effects are most profoundly felt in insulin metabolism. Inflammation directly blocks insulin from shuttling glucose into cells and actually destroys the insulin-producing beta cells of your pancreas.
Inflammation Equals Body Fat:
Where does all this inflammation come from? Even though nutrients like saturated and trans fats can boost inflammation, body fat is inflammation public enemy no. 1. That’s right, body fat itself actually spews out inflammation into the body. This is especially the case with fat deposited in the belly area.
Indeed, a study published in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition found that the amount of inflammation in the body was directly proportional to the levels of a person’s body fat.
In other words, until you burn off some excess body fat, managing your glucose levels is going to be an uphill battle.
Lower Weight, Lower Inflammation, Lower Blood Sugar Levels:
As if you needed another reason to lose weight, here’s one more: not only does weight loss do wonders for blood sugar levels, but it also shields your body from other chronic diseases like heart disease.
Sure, losing weight and keeping it off isn’t easy. However, you don’t have to be a contestant on The Biggest Loser to reap the rewards of a leaner frame. In fact, you only need to lose about 5 to10% of your body weight to see significant reductions in blood glucose levels. 2005 research published in Diabetes Care found that 10lbs (4.5 kgs) of weight loss is all that is needed to greatly reduce HbA1c levels… an important indicator of long-term blood sugar level management.
In fact, many people who do nothing else to manage their diabetes but lose weight, actually reduce or eliminate many of the diabetes medications they were once dependent on. If there’s a diabetes “cure” out there, weight loss is it.
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