What Can Exercise Do For You?

Exercise is important for everyone but even more so for diabetics.  Exercise provides so many benefits in relation to the effort required that it’s hard to believe everyone doesn’t do it regularly.  The benefits of exercise are tremendous as evidenced below.

What can exercise do for you?

• Exercise helps with your weight control
• Exercise strengthens your heart and lungs
• Exercise helps to lower your blood sugar
• Exercise helps to lower your blood pressure
• Exercise helps to lower your bad LDL cholesterol
• Exercise helps to raise your good HDL cholesterol
• Exercise helps to lower triglycerides
• Exercise helps to improve circulation
• Exercise helps to improve your energy
• Exercise helps to improve your strength and endurance
• Exercise helps to build muscle
• Exercise improves your sleep
• Exercise improves bone density and reduces the risk of osteoporosis
• Exercise relieves stress and improves your overall health
• Exercise helps you to look and feel better

Exercise has so many benefits.  It can even help to improve your sex life.  Think about it.  When you have more energy and look better and feel better about yourself it’s bound to affect other areas of your life as well.

Even more importantly, by improving your health you can improve the quality of your life and add years to it all at the same time.