Diabetes Fitness & Exercise For diabetics especially type 2, physical activity is one of the most important treatment plans apart from a healthy diet and maintaining blood sugar levels with medication when necessary. Staying fit and active can help you better control your diabetes and keep sugar levels in control. Controlling blood sugar levels is also essential to prevent long term complications such as kidney issues and nerve pain. Exercise has many benefits, but its biggest advantage is that it makes it easier to manage blood sugar levels. In case of type 2 diabetics, they have too much sugar( glucose) in their bloodstream – this can be either due to insulin resistance or failure to use the insulin properly by the body. In either condition, exercise can help reduce the blood sugar levels. Our muscles are equipped to use glucose without insulin suck up when we exercise. SImply meaning, that it is not important if your body has enough insulin or not, when you...