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Short but intense exercise reduces diabetes risks

Scotland, United Kingdom January 29: A new study suggests that short but intense exercise can reduce the risks of diabetes that affected millions of people worldwide.

The researchers said only seven minutes of "high-intensity interval training" exercise in a week lowers the chances of getting diabetes. The classic and long duration exercise no doubt reverses type 2 diabetesdefine but it is not possible for everyone to spend long hours on exercise programs.

The lead study author, James Timmons, an exercise biologist at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh said, "Unfortunately, many people feel they simply don't have the time to follow current exercise guidelines. What we have found is that doing a few intense muscle exercises, each lasting only about 30 seconds, dramatically improves your metabolism in just two weeks.”

He further said, "This is such a brief amount of exercise you can do it without breaking a sweat; You can make just as big as an effect doing this as you can by doing hours and hours of endurance training each week."

The researchers studied a group of sixteen adults for two weeks who were exercised a very short term exercises daily each of just 30 seconds. During the exercise session, the participants rode an exercise bike four times daily in 30 second spurts two days a week. After two weeks the researchers found that the participants had made a 23 percent improvement in their insulindefine sensitivity i.e. effectiveness of the body in using insulin to clear glucose from the blood stream. The study will be very beneficial to reduce cardiovascular disease and diabetes.

The researchers concluded, "This novel approach may help people to lead a healthier life, improve the future health of the population, and save the health service millions of pounds [or dollars] simply by making it easier for people to find the time to exercise."
The study is published in the journal BioMed Central Endocrine Disorders.

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