Diabetes is one of the most sufferers disease in Indonesia. Diabetes not only suffered by the elders (above 50’s), but also those below 50’s.
Diabetes is a major cause of blindness, kidney failure, heart attacks, stroke and lower limb amputation.
A healthy diet, regular physical activity, maintaining a normal body weight and avoiding tobacco use are ways to prevent or delay the onset of type 2 diabetes.
- Cause
Diabetes is a chronic disease that occurs either when the pancreas does not produce enough insulin or when the body cannot effectively use the insulin it produces. Insulin is a hormone that regulates blood sugar. Hyperglycaemia, or raised blood sugar, is a common effect of uncontrolled diabetes and over time leads to serious damage to many of the body’s systems, especially the nerves and blood vessels.
- achieve and maintain a healthy body weight;
- eat a healthy diet, avoiding sugar and saturated fats; and
- avoid tobacco use – smoking increases the risk of diabetes and cardiovascular disease
be physically active – doing at least 30 minutes of regular, moderate-intensity activity on most days. More activity is required for weight control;
- Yoga for Diabetes
Various ways can be done to maintain blood sugar levels. Daily exercises could be one of the best. But we need to be more careful in choosing which exercise that fits your condition.
Yoga could be your best daily exercise to control your blood sugar level for everyone. Here are some benefits of yoga in controlling blood sugar:
- Stress reliever
- Improve heart healthiness
- Healthy weights
- Body fitness improvement
It is important to acknowledge that stress can affects our blood sugar level. The higher stress level, the higher blood sugar level will become. This situation could worsen our health condition.
Cited from Diabetes Education Online (University of California, San Francisco), mentioned that under the stress condition, our insulins are decreased, so it’s increasing our sugar blood level. On the other side, epinephrine (adrenaline) and cortisol (stress) that released under the stress condition causing insulins does not work normally. By this situation, we need to manage our stress properly to keep our blood sugar in the normal level.
While do the yoga postures, we are regulating our respiration as well. Regulated respiration will neutralize our heart pulse (adrenaline), so this will decrease our stress level.
Diabetes is closely related heart problems. Diabetes sufferers have higher risk of heart problems.
By exercising yoga regularly, our heart activity will tend to be more regulated, so our blood pressure will stay in normal.
We can also modify our yoga exercises that fits to our heart condition, then slowly upgrade it for a better result.
Diabetes sufferers have a mission to keep their body weights in ideal condition. They need to do this, because the heavier their body weight, the higher risk of diabetes complication they can get.
One of some ways to control our body weight is by burn our calories. Diabetes sufferers can do yoga exercise to burn calories. Most of yoga postures will help our body burn calories, and keep our body weight in normal condition.
While doing yoga exercise, we also exercise our connection between mind, respiratory, and body movement. This will decrease our stress level and anxiety, so our mental health quality will gets better as well.
Yoga can also strengthen our muscles, increasing body balance and flexibility. These are the most important things for diabetes sufferers to lowering risks of falling and injury. As we know that diabetes sufferers need more time to recover from their scars. Therefore, diabetes sufferers need to keep their body fitness to minimalize those risks.
Yoga gives our body benefits from some diseases, including diabetes. For diabetes sufferers, a precise and routine yoga exercise will keep our body healthy.
Just Yoga has certified and professional teachers. We provide free consultation service to suggest your exercise that fits your health conditions.
Written by : Teacher Senjit
Sumber : hallosehat.com
