Make 10 -minute walks after each breakfast, food and dinner is associated with a 12% reduction of postprandial glucose levels.
The practice of physical exercise is, without any doubt, beneficial for the organism.However, there are times of the day the physical activity is detrimental.
This is the case, for example, of exercise after food, since it could hinder digestion.Not so in the case of dinner, since at night the metabolism is slower and there is no longer a moderate exercise - like a walk - to ‘improve it’.Hence the saying ‘the rested food and the walked dinner’.
But maybe not suitable for everyone.And it is that as it shows a study carried out by researchers from the University of Otago in Dunedin (New Zealand), it is recommended that people with type 2 diabetes walk minutes after each meal –desayuno, food and dinner - to, thus, reduceYour blood sugar levels.
As Andrew Reynolds, director of this research published in the "Diabetology" magazine explains, "Our work shows that, compared to those who took a walk at any time of the day, the participants who walked just after each meal experienced an average reductionof 12% of its postprandial glucose levels ».
Strolled meals
The recommendation of physical exercise for people with type 2 diabetes is the same as the one established for the rest of the population: practice 30 minutes of physical exercise of moderate intensity, as would be for example walking.A advice that, however, does not specify what is the best time to make these walks.
Therefore, and in order to analyze whether to walk after meals they are associated with some benefit in type 2 diabetes, the authors divided the 41 participants of their study into two groups: one in which they had to follow the advice to make a30 -minute daily walk;and another in which this half hour was divided into three 10 -minute walks that should be carried out after each main meal --dasayuno, food and dinner.
Postprandial physical activity can avoid the need to increase the total insulin dose or injectionsandrew Reynolds
After the two weeks of study, and confirmed that none of the participants had cheated - all they carried an accelerometer to measure their physical activity and devices to measure their blood glucose levels every 5 minutes - the results found the benefit of the mealsStrolled on postprandial glucose levels - this is, blood glucose figures after meals, usually two hours after food intake.
More;The results found the positive effects associated with the ‘strolled dinners’.As Andrew Reynolds indicates, "most of the benefit derived from the highly significant decrease, 22% in blood sugar levels when the walk was carried out after dinners, which were the meals with the greatest amount of carbohydrates."
Less need for insulin
In short, walking after each breakfast, food and, above all, dinner, helps improve postprandial glucose levels in type 2 diabetes. An aspect to consider since, as Jim Mann, co-author of the study, refers, "Postprandial glucose is considered an important objective in the management of type 2 diabetes given its independent contribution to blood sugar control and cardiovascular risk."
In fact, the authors highlight, “postprandial physical activity can avoid the need to increase the total insulin dose or additional insulin injections that may have been prescribed to lower blood sugar levels after meals.An increase in insulin dose canAssociate with a weight gain in patients with type two diabetes, many of which already have overweight or obesity ».
So, as Andrew Reynolds concludes, "the benefits associated with physical activity after meals suggest that current clinical practice guides should be modified to specify postprandial activity, especially when meals contain a considerable amount of carbohydrates."
Source: The reason
