Benefits of Physical activity on Diabetes

Benefits of Physical activity on Diabetes

  Benefits of Physical Activity on Diabetes   Diabetes is a lifelong condition that causes a person’s blood sugar level to become too high.   Physical activity can help in the prevention, treatment, and management of diabetes.   Physical activity in Type 1...
Tips to be more active

Tips to be more active

“An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure” Benjamin Franklin. Since being physically active cost nothing and offers significant health benefits why not be more active? Below are some examples of how you can increase your physical activity during the...
Why sitting is bad!

Why sitting is bad!

Sitting 3 hours per day shortens your life by 2 years and damages your mind and body. Also, people with sedentary jobs have twice the risk of heart disease. Being sedentary is not the same as lack of fitness. Those are two equally important and distinct risk factors...
Benefits of physical activity

Benefits of physical activity

Physical inactivity is a major public health problem of our time. Those who think they have no time for exercise sooner or later have to find time for illness. The evidence is here and demonstrates that low fitness causes more deaths than smoking-obesity-diabetes...
Physical activity guidelines

Physical activity guidelines

  Physical inactivity has been identified as the fourth leading risk factor for global mortality. The World Health Organisation (WHO) defines Physical Activity as any bodily movement produced by skeletal muscles that require energy expenditure.   Physical...