Sheri R. Colberg PhD Articles

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Pre-Exercise Evaluation and Assessment	By Sheri Colberg, PhD   A safe and effective exercise program for people with diabetes minimizes the acute risks and long-term complications associated with physical activity while maximizing the benefits. As the benefits frequently outweigh the risks, regular participation in a variety of physical activities should be recommended and encouraged for almost all individuals with diabetes, keeping in mind that certain comorbidities (whether diagnosed or not) may carry a higher risk than others.
Getting More Daily Lifestyle Activity	By Sheri Colberg, PhD   Individuals with all types of diabetes frequently are deconditioned and live a sedentary lifestyle.
Exercise Benefits for Gestational Diabetes	By Sheri Colberg, PhD   Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM), which is maternal hyperglycemia that arises primarily during the third trimester of pregnancy, is usually diagnosed at 24 to 28 weeks of gestation with an oral glucose challenge.
Use Sticky Ideas to Lose the Weight -- and Keep It Off This Time	by Sheri Colberg, PhD      This time of year always brings the desire to lose a few pounds (or more) to the forefront of people's minds. But how do you know how to go about doing it?
How to Avoid Becoming One of the Many Exercise Dropouts	By Sheri Colberg, PhD     Based on past research, the top reasons why people drop out of exercise programs are the following (in no particular order): 1) lack of time, 2) exercise intensity too high, 3) orthopedic injury, and 4) lack of enjoyment. I will address each of these reasons individually and give you some ideas to help your patients avoid or overcome each one.
Losing Weight Is the Easy Part: How to Keep It Off for Good	By Sheri Colberg, PhD   It's not enough to lose weight for diabetes management and prevention and better health -- you really need to know how to keep it off after you lose it.
Why Exercise Timing Matters -- But Not for the Reason You Think	By Sheri Colberg, PhD   A recent study published online in October 2012 in the British Journal of Nutrition (and reported on in Diabetes In Control) attempted to address the issue of how timing of exercise relative to meal ingestion influences substrate balance and metabolic responses1.
Controlling Inflammation with Easy Changes Is the Place to Start	By Sheri Colberg, PhD   What causes diabetes? Now that's a loaded question if I have ever heard one. What doesn't cause it? That would actually be an easier question to answer.
Why the Physical Inactivity of Youth Is a Growing Problem	By Sheri Colberg, PhD   How much exercise are kids actually getting nowadays? Not nearly enough!
Get Motivated to Improve Your Insulin Action with Physical Activity	By Sheri Colberg, PhD    Any type of exercise training can make your insulin work better, regardless of what type of diabetes you have and whether you have to take insulin.
Why Heart Rate Variability Is Key to Longevity and Healthy Aging	Sheri Colberg, PhD     A lot of my clinical research of late has been on a collision course with heart rate variability, or HRV for short. In fact, it has gotten to the point that I now believe that maintaining your HRV is the key to your well-being, longevity, and successful aging. Let me share with you some of the reasons why and what you can do to keep your HRV intact for longer.
Practice Balance Exercises to Stay on Your Feet	By Sheri Colberg, PhD   Just to ask, when was the last time you practiced balancing on one leg for a minute or two?
Taking More Breaks in Sedentary Time May Be the Place to Start	By Sheri Colberg, PhD   Individuals with diabetes are frequently deconditioned and live a sedentary lifestyle. The good news is that people starting out on the lowest end of the fitness scale have the most to gain from adding in very little physical activity.
Fall Much? You Need to Exercise More, Not Less, to Prevent Falls	By Sheri R. Colberg, PhD   Just the other day I heard someone who was kidding around facetiously say to his colleague, "Help, I've fallen and I can't get up!" That phrase is actually a registered trademark of Life Alert Emergency Response and commonly joked about, but it's no laughing matter.
Doing So Little Exercise Can Have Such a Big Effect	By Sheri R. Colberg, PhD For those of us who are reasonably fit and exercise regularly, it is hard for us to imagine that people who are currently sedentary, unfit, or overweight can benefit metabolically from doing something like simply taking breaks from sitting. However, the research in this area is now compellingly clear. Individuals with the most to gain can greatly affect their metabolic health by taking very small steps in the right direction with regard to their exercise habits.
What You Can Do to Stop the Blood Sugar Rollercoaster	By Sheri Colberg, PhD  If you find that your blood sugars often fluctuate from too high to too low (and vice versa), you're on the blood sugar rollercoaster. To learn how to eliminate the extremes, you'll have to do a little sleuthing on your own. Get out your blood glucose meter, and for a week try testing before and after a variety of meals, activities, and destressors to figure out what's making it go up and down to stop it for good!
How Old Are You Really?	By Sheri Colberg, PhD Different tissues and organs change over time at varying rates, so enhancing their function will likely slow your rate of biological aging and, in some cases, even reverse it. Certain biomarkers of biological aging can let you know whether you're doing better or worse than your actual chronological age would indicate. Some of the more common biomarkers for aging that you can have tested and that you may be able to control follow. Most of them you can’t test on your own, but you will at least know which tests to consider having at some point.
Is Engaging in Intense Exercise for Less Time the Answer?	By Sheri Colberg, PhD Just when everyone was already confused about what types and amounts of training people with diabetes should be doing, along comes yet another study to muddy the waters some more. This latest exercise research was undertaken by faculty at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, and appeared in the December 2011 issue of Journal of Applied Physiology (1).
Top 10 Physical Activity Myths Demystified	By Sheri Colberg, PhD     How often have you heard things about physical activity that sounded right, but that you didn't know whether to believe or not? If you go hang out at a gym, you'll hear about everything, including contradictory statements about what will give you the best results.
A Culture of Obesity? Time to Walk the Walk	By Sheri Colberg, PhD   In updating a chapter on exercise and diabetes for the American College of Sports Medicine, I came across a recently published article about the benefits of lifestyle modification for diabetes prevention. In this study by Djoussé and colleagues at the Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School1, the objective was to examine the association between modifiable lifestyle factors, including diet, exercise, weight loss, smoking abstinence, and moderate alcohol consumption, and residual lifetime risk of diabetes.

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