What comes to mind when you hear the word ‘balance’ in relationship to your diabetes management? Is it routine? Focus? Stability? Finding balance with a disease like diabetes is quite a challenge. Just when you think you’ve got it all sorted the playing field changes and your pancreas wigs out on you yet again. When I get all muddled up …
Weight training, its worth its weight in gold
Resistance training has recently been recognized as a useful therapeutic tool for the treatment of a number of chronic diseases. Strength training (when done correctly) has been shown to provide a safe and effective way to control blood glucose, increase strength, and improve the quality of life in individuals with diabetes. Lifting weights is an effective form of exercise for …