Exercise for losing weight.  Exercise for toning your body.  Exercise as a method of stress relief and feeling more positively toward yourself.  These are all well known benefits of spending 45-minutes a few times a week active.

Now, exercise to control Type 2 Diabetes?  Exercise to control blood sugar, including significant reductions in complications of diabetes such as heart attack, stroke and kidney disease.

Diabetes has become an epidemic and will only continue to escalate as our population ages so any natural way to control diabetes is not just a personal benefit, but a social and economic benefit as well.

In this Time-CNN report which outlines details of a new study released by the journal “Annals of Internal Medicine” where researchers from University of Calgary and University of Ottawa found significant benefit in aerobic and weight training exercise.

The good part is that the 45-minutes, 3-times each week is achievable for most people, even those not in the best shape.

Perhaps the most important conclusion of all is that even if you are not seeing significant weight loss as a result of your exercise, benefits to blood sugar, blood pressure and other bodily functions makes exercise well worth your while.

Jeff