Staying in shape is a life-long process and most of us don’t come to that conclusion until that process is well under way and our lives are fleeting by. By the time you are in your fifties the lifestyle choices of the previous years have caught to you and usually not for the better. The primary problem is too much of you. Comparing high school photos to current day photos often shows a much larger person than the one that left high school. Unfortunately this larger person has accumulated some other problems along with gaining weight.
Primary among those issues is that a normal glucose level is a thing of the past and contributing to some of the other health problems that are cropping up. Over the years of poor eating choices and too much alcohol intake has over loaded the body’s system with too much glucose and it doesn’t work as well as it used too. Depending on how out of balance those blood glucose levels are you may be on the way to developing full-blown diabetes or you may be able to reverse some of those problems through exercise and diet changes.
Normal glucose levels indicate a smooth functioning body where insulin is able to regulate blood sugar and nothing is out of balance. In order to get top that condition what you eat needs scrutiny and moving to a diet higher in protein and fiber and lower in carbohydrates is a good start to returning those levels to regular levels. Most carbohydrates are readily converted to glucose during digestion and then absorbed into the bloodstream. Not necessarily a bad thing, but too much all at once will cause blood sugar swings and a chronic eating this can impair the body’s response to insulin. Help your body out and eat in a way to minimize these swings.
Exercise can be the other part to help regulate this process as muscles use glucose for fuel top keep us moving, so the more moving you do the more glucose gets burned as fuel for those muscles. Using more glucose as fuel, leaves less to circulate in the blood stream and keeps glucose levels in normal ranges. Besides these benefits, exercise will also tone you up and maybe even restore some of your former mobility and joy of walking and being outdoors. They are two changes that are hard to make but provide benefits that no medicine can.
