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Muscle Strength and Lower Risks of Type 2 Diabetes

By Shirley Eichenberger-Archer, JD, MA / June 18, 2025

Motivate your strength training participants by sharing that higher levels of muscular strength may reduce type 2 diabetes, risks, regardless of genetics. University of Hong Kong researchers evaluated data from 141,848 white British adults in the UK Biobank, a database of over 500,000 UK adults being tracked for genetic and health information.  “Individuals in middle-to-late…

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Exercise and Diet Can Prevent Type 2 Diabetes

By Shirley Eichenberger-Archer, JD, MA / December 9, 2024

More good news promotes the value of exercise. A recent 3-year-long study by University of Eastern Finland researchers focused specifically on men with a high genetic risk of type 2 diabetes. Investigators tracked nearly 1,000 men between 50 to 75 years in either a health-promoting lifestyle group or a control group. The prevalence of type…

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Yoga for Diabetes

By Vivian Griggs / September 16, 2024

Prologue – From the moment she was diagnosed with diabetes, Alyssa’s life revolved around regular checkups, timely medication and rigorous dietary restrictions. As a person with a chronic metabolic condition, constantly worrying about her blood sugar levels took a toll on her mental health as well. Before seeing the exciting result of Alyssa’s journey, let’s…

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Coaching Clients With Type 2 Diabetes

By Sandy Todd Webster / November 17, 2022

In many cases, type 2 diabetes can be prevented or well-maintained with a healthy lifestyle, and fitness pros are experts in this realm.

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Exercise for Diabetes

By Shirley Eichenberger-Archer, JD, MA / June 13, 2022

To help those who manage diabetes, and the fit pros who train them, the ACSM issued updated guidelines on exercise for diabetes.

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What is Diabesity?

By Judy Minich / October 15, 2021

Diabesity is a common cause of chronic inflammation, so it’s important for fit pros to have a basic understanding of what it is and how it can affect clients. Here, Len Kravitz, PhD, Gabriella Bellissimo, MA and Jessica Smith, MS, CSCS, explain this relatively new term.

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October 2021 Question of the Month: Do You Promote Vitamin D Benefits?

By ... / September 27, 2021

Research on vitamin D benefits has linked it to improved bone health and lower cancer risk. Now, it appears to help prevent diabetes.

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Less Red Meat, Lower Diabetes Risk

By Matthew Kadey, MS, RD / March 8, 2021

Red meat is a staple in the typical American diet, but it appears replacing it with other sources of protein may help reduce the risk of type 2 diabetes.

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Weight Training and Diabetes

By Gilles Beaudin, MSc / March 14, 2019

At the medical clinic where I work as an exercise physiologist, a patient came to see me; let’s call him John. He was healthy, but his fasting blood glucose levels were high. He was in his mid-40s and had low muscle mass. John was not on medication and wanted to avoid it. He asked my advice.

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