{"id":2663,"date":"2014-08-04T18:10:14","date_gmt":"2014-08-04T23:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=2663"},"modified":"2014-08-04T14:05:37","modified_gmt":"2014-08-04T19:05:37","slug":"exercise-for-diabetes-intensity-matters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/exercise-for-diabetes-intensity-matters\/","title":{"rendered":"Exercise for diabetes: intensity matters"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2638\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Pedro-Ribeiro-Sim\u00f5es.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2638\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2638\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Pedro-Ribeiro-Sim\u00f5es.jpg\" alt=\"Alternating between high-intensity and low-intensity exercise can help people with diabetes.  (Photo: Pedro Ribeiro Sim\u00f5es, flickr.com)\" width=\"640\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Pedro-Ribeiro-Sim\u00f5es.jpg 640w, http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Pedro-Ribeiro-Sim\u00f5es-300x175.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2638\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alternating between high-intensity and low-intensity exercise can help people with diabetes. (Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/pedrosimoes7\/4997225622\/in\/photolist-8BA65s-5qA6q9-7zHEv5-6tqbCB-gUZTzG-gy4F8K-ncNY7n-5kjujE-6vWUJS-aHFMFD-a2noEC-i6B7VR-gXCm2W-e2PdbU-bW3j8j-5J4Xze-eWuKqB-ayqvZp-h39sSg-7jEgGR-dHQ7MW-5pL98D-nxK5fL-bAGLYE-9jWy24-nwKFX4-bZALb-buuNCq-itn2Gc-Q4zGr-m5hFji-jg3Htr-nv1Knd-b8UVYi-f9XE7a-6E72TM-o2vnpb-boQpP7-8sa5PQ-8xyxBR-8xBAvQ-egcNgv-9UNwSB-8kSEQJ-bH8UX2-cGMPK-6g9No1-cqxbsj-e3zrCL-57RK9R\/\">Pedro Ribeiro Sim\u00f5es, flickr.com<\/a>)<\/p><\/div>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"color: #222222;\">The positive effect of exercise on diabetes is well established, but new research suggests that alternating between high-intensity and low-intensity exercise is required for best results.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"color: #222222;\">Researchers examined control of blood sugar levels in three groups; one that did not exercise, one that did continuous low-intensity exercise, and one that alternated between high and low intensity (interval training). The third group had the best results; the authors suggest that may be due to increased dispersal of glucose in the body and increased insulin sensitivity.<\/p>\n<p><span>The original research paper<\/span>\u00a0was published in\u00a0<span style=\"color: #222222;\"><em>Diabetologia<\/em>\u00a0<\/span>on\u00a0<strong>August 4, 2014<\/strong>, and is available upon request.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span><em><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<h4 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"color: #222222;\">Thomas Solomon, University of Copenhagen, Denmark<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The positive effect of exercise on diabetes is well established, but new research suggests that alternating between high-intensity and low-intensity exercise is required for best results. Researchers examined control of blood sugar levels in three groups; one that did not exercise, one that did continuous low-intensity exercise, and one that alternated between high and low [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2638,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[2077,1792,51,53,476],"class_list":["post-2663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-diabetes","tag-exercise","tag-health","tag-medicine","tag-public-health"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Pedro-Ribeiro-Sim\u00f5es.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-GX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2663"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2664,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2663\/revisions\/2664"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}