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Diabetes & Keeping Fit For Dummies

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Although ending up with a chronic disease that youre likely to have to deal with for the rest of your life is never pleasant, the thing about diabetes (or prediabetes, for that matter) is that its at least a manageable condition. You can keep on top of your blood glucose (sugar in blood) and keep it as near normal as possible, regardless of which type you have. In doing so, you greatly lower your chances of having to deal with any additional health complications arising from having diabetes. You cant say that about many chronic health issues.

Diabetes & Keeping Fit For Dummies doesnt necessarily contain any ground-breaking techniques to conquer diabetes once and for all. In fact, it may not contain anything that seems that new to you. What is does offer, though, is everything you need to know to not only lengthen your life with diabetes or prediabetes but also live well in a healthy body with a sharp mind until the end of your life, all from the worlds leading expert on the topic of diabetes and exercise.

Living a long life is one thing; living it well is something else completely. Really, whats the point of living long if you cant live well and feel your best every day of your life?

Diabetes & Keeping Fit For Dummies tries to give you all the tools you need in your lifestyle toolbox to live long and well with any type of diabetes or prediabetes. It provides an overview of the types of diabetes, what makes you more likely to get one type or another, and why your health can benefit so much from managing it and your diabetes simultaneously. Sometimes that involves using the right medications for your diabetes.

You really need to know the basics about how being active affects your body and your blood glucose, why you want to avoid glucose extremes (and how to do it), and how to set up a fitness program that works for you. And, of course, you need to understand how your food choices impact your health and your ability to be active.

Really, there are no wrong activities for someone who wants to get keep fit with diabetes. The right activities for you basically mean anything you can get yourself to do regularly. But some specific options are recommended more than others when you have diabetes, and this book tells you what you need to know about doing those. You should aim to boost your endurance, pump up your strength, find your balance, flex all your joints, and mix it all up to keep it fun and impactful not too much to ask.

You keep fit at any age (young, old, or in between) or with any health complication typical with diabetes. If youre overweight, no problem. If youre female and/or an athlete, its more complicated, but Ive got you covered.

You now have no reason to consider exercise a four-letter word anymore.

If you bought this book or even if you got it as a gift and actually opened it to start reading I can only assume that youre at least a little bit interested in seeing whether you can get more fit. In writing it, I assume that at least one of the following situations applies to you as a unique individual:

• Youre a complete fitness novice who needs all the help you can get, and youre actually willing to read this book to find out how.
• You know you should be more physically active, but maybe youre lacking the motivation to get active and stay active.
• Youre up off the couch already, but you want to know more about which activities are best for you.
• Being active is hard for you given the health issues youre dealing with, and you want some help getting as fit as you can just to be healthier or to lose a few pounds in the process.
• Youre an athletic person already, but you hope to pick up some new trick that will make you a better athlete or allow you to easily try a new activity.

Throughout this book, I use a number of icons in the margins that are intended to grab your attention and help you get more out of your keeping-fit-with-diabetes journey: