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Exercise therapy is not only good for diabetes patients but also for a normal person. The benefits of exercise have been known since long time. About 2500 years ago, ancient Indian physician Sushruta stressed upon the importance of exercise in the treatment of diabetes. Shortly after the discovery of insulin in 1922, it was shown that exercise potentiates the effect of insulin. Exercise produces the same beneficial effects in the diabetics as in the non-diabetics. Exercise in association with balanced diet remained an important tool in the management of type-2 diabetics because of its beneficial effect on insulin sensitivity and with a rare precipitation of hypoglycaemia.Type-1 diabetics can also be benefited from long term positive changes.

During exercise, whole body oxygen consumption may increase by as much as 20 folds. The increased energy needs of skeletal muscles under those circumstances uses its own stores of glycogen and triglycerides as well as free fatty acids derived from breakdown of adipose tissue, triglycerides and glucose release from the liver. To preserve central nervous system functions, blood glucose levels are well maintained during exercise. The metabolic adjustment that occurs during exercise, in large part is hormonally maintained.

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