Physical Activity

In part 5 of this Exclusive Interview, Sheri Colberg talks with Diabetes in Control Publisher Steve Freed during the ADA meeting in San Diego, California about how much exercise to do and for how long, especially to benefit blood glucose numbers.

In part 6 of this Exclusive Interview, Sheri Colberg talks with Diabetes in Control Publisher Steve Freed during the ADA meeting in San Diego, California about the percentage of people with type 2 following some sort of exercise plan and why they aren't meeting the standards.

In part 7 of this Exclusive Interview, Sheri Colberg talks with Diabetes in Control Publisher Steve Freed during the ADA meeting in San Diego, California about the importance of exercise, even for the elderly, and the benefits of solutions such as standup desks.

In part 8, the conclusion of this Exclusive Interview, Sheri Colberg shares her thoughts for medical professional seeking to effect change in their patients with Diabetes in Control Publisher Steve Freed during the ADA meeting in San Diego, California.

By Featured Writer Sheri R. Colberg, PhD. As a clinical exercise researcher, I frequently have found it difficult to study exercise effects in people with health complications, even though this is critical information to know in order to make appropriate exercise guidelines. Try convincing your university Institutional Research Board, or IRB, that it is advisable to exercise people with eye issues like unstable proliferative retinopathy to find out if breath-holding, jumping, jarring, or head-down activities cause them to experience retinal hemorrhages. Understandably, that is not going to happen, nor should it.

Children with diabetes are often sidelined during team sports and planned exercise.

Make no mistake: sitting less time overall is a good idea for myriad health reasons, but is sitting as bad for you as some would suggest? Is it really the new smoking? In 2017 alone, a slew of new research studies has looked at various health detriments associated with prolonged sitting, even in adults who exercise regularly.

Fresh off the Larry H. Miller Tour of Utah and with little time to recover, Team Novo Nordisk tackled the high-altitude Colorado Classic. Team Novo Nordisk's squad included three neo-pros (new professionals), one stagiaire (basically an intern looking for a contract) and two veteran riders, so a very young and fairly inexperienced squad.

In part 4 of this Exclusive Interview, Dr. Karl Nadolsky talks with Diabetes in Control Publisher Steve Freed during the AACE 2017 convention in Austin, Texas. Dr. Nadolsky explains his preferences for patients when discussing weight loss.

I have been writing columns—mostly about physical activity and exercise—for this enewsletter for more than a decade, and I am grateful to DIC for allowing me to educate everyone on topics that I feel so strongly about. This month, I would like to switch gears a bit and share some of my personal story about why physical activity matters to me and how I have lived successfully with type 1 diabetes for almost 50 years to date.