Study: The Best Exercise for Diabetes [news]
It's no secret that exercise is key to controlling type 2 diabetes — and many doctors already urge their diabetic patients to get active. But it's a vague directive: How much exercise is enough? How often? And what kind?
The simple answer is that any is better than none — in sum, that's what
a new study published in the Sept. 18 issue of the journal Annals of Internal Medicine
found. But it also found that not all exercise is created equal and
that the combination of aerobic exercise and weight training is
significantly better for controlling blood sugar than either alone.