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...last year, visits to the 624 websites that Hitwise tracks in the wellness category (which includes sites on weight loss and fitness) has increased by more than 20%. The Oprah effect aside - a Chinese weight-loss tea that she mentioned on her show is now the sixth most popular site visited in the category - television is playing an important role in our increased online awareness of the need to lose weight...
...bump in mid-September, a surge of interest online that coincides with the launch of the new fall TV line-up - including the premiere of NBC's hit reality show, The Biggest Loser, which pits teams of overweight contestants against each other to see who can lose the most weight...
Until a few years ago, says Sigal, American Diabetes Association guidelines recommended against weight training for diabetic people, particularly for older and longtime patients, "out of a fear that blood pressure may go too high and may cause problems - strokes or some kind of acute event - during exercise... That wasn't based on any real evidence." Today, the Association advises patients to exercise 30 minutes a day at least five days a week, and recommends routines similar to the ones Sigal studied: aerobic workouts (such as walking, swimming, biking), with weight training (with weights or bands) and practice in flexibility...
...improvements in blood-sugar control in all the patients who worked out. Compared with controls, patients in the aerobic group had a reduction of .51% in their hemoglobin A1C values - a test that measures blood-sugar control over the previous two to three months (lower is better). The weight-training group had a .38% reduction compared with controls. But the combined exercise group showed further improvements: in those patients, the A1C values went down an additional .46% over the aerobic group, and .59% over the weight-training group. Compared to controls, the combo exercisers had a nearly 1% lower...
Across all three exercise groups, data suggested that working out could improve blood pressure, triglyceride and cholesterol levels in people with diabetes; however, there was no significant difference in the changes among the groups. Exercising also led to modest weight loss - even though patients were put on diets specifically designed to maintain weight - and a reduction in belly fat. What's more, CT scans of patients' muscles suggested that exercise could improve their internal structure and function. "So, even if you're not losing weight, don't get discouraged just because of that," says Sigal. "There's still additional value...