Are suffering from type 2 diabetes or have concerns about controlling your blood glucose levels?

The simple yet complex recipe to managing diabetes or even putting it to remission is to maintain blood glucose at fairly stable levels. In practice, this can prove quite challenging to some due to the various reasons.

The good news is, a new method referred to as ‘exercise snacking’, has proven potent as a time-effective means for improving glycaemic control and maintaining glucose homeostasis in pre-diabetes, those with obesity, overweight or even those suffering from insulin resistance.

Exercise snacking is basically small bouts of intense exercise distributed over the day, ideally before meals. An example would be 6 x 1 min before breakfast, 6 x 1 min before lunch and 6 x 1 min before dinner for a total of 18 min at HIT level exercise in a single day.

Using continuous blood glucose monitors, exercise snacking was found to decrease 24hrs glucose by 0.7 mmol/L over 24 hrs relative to those who exercise once a day using conventional methods. Not only a profound improvement in blood glucose that can only be matched by medication, but even more so that these improvements persisted for 24hrs even when individuals were not exercising.

Definitely worth trying if you’re mindful about maintaining your blood glucose levels.