Why You Still Need To Exercise As Well As Follow A Healthy Eating Plan

If your doctor has told you your blood pressure reading is high and your blood sugar is above normal, you probably have the metabolic syndrome. This term refers to a grouping of risk factors for heart disease, including...

• Type 2 diabetes or prediabetes,
• abdominal obesity,
• high blood pressure, and
• high triglycerides.

According to a report published in the Journal of Women's Health in September 2015, metabolic syndrome becomes more common in women during the years post-menopause.

Researchers at Shandong University and several other institutions in China found ten or more years after women experienced menopause, the more likely they were to develop metabolic syndrome and insulin resistance, the cause of Type 2 diabetes. A total of 790 pre-menopausal and 3646 post-menopausal women between 40 and 80 years of age were included in the research...

• women 10 to 14 years post-menopause were more than twice as likely to have the metabolic syndrome as those less than 10 years post-menopause.
• they also were more likely to have high blood fats, high blood sugar, and high LDL, or unhealthy cholesterol.
• women more than 15 years after menopause had the highest risk of belly fat.

Should estradiol be given post-menopause? According to work reported on in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism in October 2015, the drug estradiol is helpful in preventing Type 2 diabetes in women if given in the first 6 years after they have gone through menopause. Researchers at the University of Colorado in Aurora, United States, were given estradiol for one week...

• women with 6 or fewer years since experiencing menopause improved their ability to clear blood sugar.
• women at least 10 years after menopause lowered their ability to clear blood sugar after a week of estradiol treatment.

From the above results, it was suggested estradiol might act upon insulin to change its level of effectiveness. This is something post-menopausal women should consider and discuss with their physicians. Estradiol is a hormone used as replacement therapy for post-menopausal women, to avoid hot flashes and vaginal dryness.

Is bone density loss connected to Type 2 diabetes or menopause? Post-menopausal women often lose bone density, but fortunately Type 2 diabetes is not linked with a bone mineral loss according to a report in the journal Menopause in October 2015. Researchers at the Tehran University of Medical Sciences in Iran compared 110 post-menopausal women and found those with and without Type 2 diabetes had the same degree of bone mineral loss.

Is a Type 2 diabetic woman's ability to use oxygen lowered during exercise? In September 2015, the American Journal of Physiology reported on a study showing Type 2 diabetes, but not menopause, lowered a woman's ability to use oxygen during exercise. Investigators at Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland, and several other institutions tested twenty-two Type 2 diabetic women during exercise. While cycling, these women scored lower than non-diabetic women in oxygen utilization. Pre-menopausal and menopausal women produced similar readings in both groups.

Although managing your disease can be very challenging, Type 2 diabetes is not a condition you must just live with. You can make simple changes to your daily routine and lower both your weight and your blood sugar levels. Hang in there, the longer you do it, the easier it gets.

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