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Tharikashree · Joined: 21 Aug 2009 Posts: 10

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Why does losing weight help my diabetes?

banurekha · Joined: 07 Aug 2009 Posts: 16

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Losing weight really helps diabetes, especially if it's type 2 diabetes. When you cut down the amount of food you are eating before even before the first pound is lost, your blood sugars will get a lot better. And then if you lose five to ten pounds you even have further improvements in blood sugar. It really, the weight loss and reduced calories, what they do is they reduce the workload of the pancreas. Every time you eat, the body has to produce insulin to manage that food. So by the nature of you eating less, you're giving the pancreas a jump-start and break and it helps it work more efficiently.

jenitharosy · Joined: 05 Aug 2009 Posts: 20

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Weight loss helps people with diabetes in two important ways. First, it lowers insulin resistance. This allows your natural insulin (in people with type 2 diabetes) to do a better job lowering blood glucose levels. If you take a diabetes medicine, losing weight lowers blood glucose and may allow you to reduce the amount you're taking, or quit taking it altogether. Second, it improves blood fat and blood pressure levels. People with diabetes are about twice as likely to get cardiovascular disease as most people. Lowering blood fats and blood pressure is a way to reduce that risk.