What fitness and nutrition professionals need to know about diabetes… Fitness and nutrition professionals are the people best positioned to prevent the epidemic of diabetes, as it is necessarily a disease of faulty lifestyle. Diabetes cannot be treated, but it can be prevented, or delayed indefinitely with lifestyle changes. At present, about 8% of the […]
Exercise and Training Programming for Clients with Diabetes
Diabetes is a chronic metabolic disease characterized by a lack of insulin resulting in elevated blood glucose levels. Individuals with a fasting blood glucose level greater than 125 mg/dl are deemed diabetic. Diabetes has been linked with the onset of other chronic diseases including, but not limited to, microvascular complications, atherosclerosis, peripheral vascular disease, peripheral […]