Type 2 Diabetes:Weight Loss and Exercise

If you are extremely obese and have type 2 diabetes, weight-loss surgery may help you shed weight and reduce, or even reverse, type 2 diabetes. However, some patients see little or no improvement in their diabetes after surgery...  Read More

Exercise is a tool you can use almost like a diabetes drug: It can control blood sugar, lower blood pressure, make you feel better, give you more energy, and help you lose weight...  Read More

"We need people with diabetes up and moving," says George Griffing, MD, professor of endocrinology at the Saint Louis University School of Medicine in St. Louis. "If you can do your exercise in one 30 minute stretch, fine. But if not, break it up into increments you can manage that add up to at least 30 minutes each day..."  Read More

As the pastor of the Rising Star Missionary Baptist Church in Denver, I'm often called upon to visit parishioners and friends in the hospital. Our congregation is predominantly African American, a group that is at particularly high risk of type 2 diabetes. So when I go to the hospital, I'm sometimes visiting people who've lost their toes and even legs to diabetes...  Read More

Diabetes has been in my family for generations. But frankly, by the time I was in my 20s, I was sick of hearing about it. It was always, "Don’t do this, you’re going to be diabetic; don’t do that, you’re going to be like your grandparents."   Read More

You may consider exercise a nuisance, a chore, or simply a bore. But if you've been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, you need to look at physical activity in a whole new light. Now it's a tool. Just like taking a drug or altering your diet, exercise can lower blood sugar...  Read More

People with diabetes are at high risk of heart disease (more than 75% die of stroke or heart attack). It can be a bit scary to exercise if you have heart disease or have had a heart attack, but with the proper monitoring, it can be done...  Read More

As the pastor of the Rising Star Missionary Baptist Church in Denver, I'm often called upon to visit parishioners and friends in the hospital. Our congregation is predominantly African American, a group that is at particularly high risk of type 2 diabetes. So when I go to the hospital, I'm sometimes visiting people who've lost their toes and even legs to diabetes...  Read More