In order to maintain our health, we can’t just rely on our own willpower. We need to learn how to care for ourselves so we can maintain our health.
The problem is that we cannot just sit back and wait for our bodies to recover from a medical condition. Our bodies do not recover from injury and illness on their own, meaning that we, as individuals, must take responsibility for our health. Of course, taking care of our bodies will require us to make a lot of lifestyle changes as well, most notably, getting into better shape.
It’s important to be active, but so is maintaining a healthy lifestyle. In fact, it’s better to be sedentary and inactive for a long period of time than to be active and unhealthy. If you’re overweight, you will likely feel the effects of this more strongly than a person with a normal weight.
What does this mean for you? Well, you can take heart from a new study we did on the effects of exercise and diet on your blood sugar. Basically, when you exercise your blood sugar goes up, but as you get older your risk of diabetes goes up even more. In other words, over 40, the risk of diabetes skyrockets.
That being said, we also found that a person with a normal body weight is less likely to get diabetes than someone who is overweight or obese. This is called the “obesity paradox,” and it should remind you that even if a person who has a normal body weight is more likely to get diabetes than a person with a body mass index (BMI) of 30 or higher, it does not mean that this person is going to die from diabetes.
If you are overweight or obese, the risk of getting diabetes is higher than it would be if you were overweight, but if a person were to get diabetes, then his BMI would be a lot higher, which would increase his risk of death, but not his risk of having to take insulin shots or be diagnosed.
For a person who has a BMI of 30 or higher, the risk of death is a lot higher, and he is more likely to die of heart disease or stroke. However, if a person with a BMI of 30 or higher was told he has diabetes, he would likely have to take insulin shots.
In a very real way, insulin shots are a very low-risk, very long-term way to control diabetes. It will probably increase your risk of death, but it is a very low-risk way of preventing a lot of diabetes-related diseases.
The good news? It’s not really a choice. If you are overweight, you are already at higher risk of dying from heart disease, cancer, and stroke. But if you are overweight, you have an easier time controlling your diet, so being overweight is less of a problem. If you have diabetes, you are at higher risk of getting sick, and you may have to take insulin shots.
Another good reason to be physically active is to have a healthy heart. When you exercise, your heart will be stronger and in better shape to fight disease.
