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<p style="font-size: 18pt; font-weight:bold; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif';"><a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/dr-mirkin-exercise-and-diabetes/">Dr. Mirkin: Exercise and Diabetes</a></p> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif';">Posted April 24, 2008 at 04:00 PM by Alexandra Haller</p> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif'">Several studies show that vigorous exercise can help to prevent and to treat diabetes.&nbsp; A recent study from the University of Missouri in Columbia helps to explain why (American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology, April 2008). The vast majority of people who have diabetes do not lackinsulin. Their disease is caused by an inability to respond to insulin.&nbsp; Since their cells do not respond to insulin, blood sugar levels rise and damage their cells.&nbsp; By studying blood flowing to and from the hind legs of obese rats, researchers found that acute muscle contractions markedly increased the passage of sugar into skeletal muscles, and markedly increased the flow of electrons in mitochondria. Muscle cells have anywhere from six to thousands of tiny inclusions called mitochondria.&nbsp; Mitochondria convert food to energy by shuffling electrons from…<a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/dr-mirkin-exercise-and-diabetes/">(<a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/dr-mirkin-exercise-and-diabetes/">Continued...</a>)<br clear="all" /><br> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif'"><a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/dr-mirkin-exercise-and-diabetes/">Read the full article...</a> | <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/dr-mirkin-exercise-and-diabetes/">Comment on this post</a></p> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif'">Filed under: <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/archive/category/her-fitness/">her-fitness</a>, <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/archive/category/athletics/">athletics</a>, <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/archive/category/her-health/">her-health</a>, <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/archive/category/her-nutrition/">her-nutrition</a>, <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/archive/category/healthy-eating/">healthy-eating</a>, <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/archive/category/her-news/">her-news</a><br /><br /> </P>