The Reason Why I Blog

I was sharing my diabetic story with a fellow co-worker the other day, she stated her husband was diagnosed with Type II diabetes about 2 years ago and been on medication ever since. However, he thinks he doesn’t need to exercise because he takes a “pill”. He believes he can eat and do whatever he wants because he takes medication to control it. WOW!! It’s shocking to hear someone this far off the mark in this day and age! Especially from a relatively young person in their 40’s. Actually, I would have understood, not agree with, the thinking behind this reasoning if he was 80+ years old, but someone in their 40’s? There’s too much information available and the access thereof for someone to be this misinformed.

This is the reason why I blog! I never know who will cross my path that can benefit from the information and experiences I’ve had on my journey with diabetes. So if you know someone, and/or you think like my coworker’s husband, the following announcement is for you.
Hear ye, hear ye! Along with eating a good diet and taking any medicine your doctor prescribed, people with diabetes are encouraged to exercise regularly for better blood sugar control and a reduction in risk of cardiovascular disease. Why? Muscles that are working use more glucose than those that are resting.

Don’t believe me? Here’s a link to an article from WebMD, Exercise and Diabetes.

Need to read it in something more official? Here’s an article from National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), National Institutes of Health (NIH), What I need to know about Physical Activity and Diabetes.

Still a knucklehead, want something more scientific like a published journal report? Checkout this report, Association of an Intensive Lifestyle Intervention With Remission of Type 2 Diabetes, co-authored by a University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) researcher and published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), that shows intensive lifestyle interventions, including diet and exercise, have the potential to put Type 2 diabetes into remission and eliminate the need for medication in some cases.

There! I’ve given you 3 sources, one from the medical community, the government, and from a scientific study that unequivocally proves exercise is beneficial for people with Type II diabetes. There’s a tons of information on the internet, just google the phrase “diabetes exercise.”

Again, people like my co-worker’s husband are the recipients of why I blog. I made a promised that if He delivered me from the grasp of diabetes, I wouldn’t sit on my testimony. So yes I’m a diabetic, but diabetes has no control over me. Just like the songwriter of “Why We Sing”, although I can’t sing, but I can blog:

I blog because I’m happy.
I blog because I’m free.
His eye is on the sparrow
That’s the reason why I blog.