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Kane
With the third anniversary of my heart attack on the near horizon, I was thinking as I walked my dogs this morning about how my dog Kane helped in my recovery. Let me explain. After returning home from the hospital where I had stents inserted and had sustained some damage to my heart, I was barely able to walk to the bathroom. It took about a week to get to the point of being able to walk to the end of the block and back….slowly. Too slowly for my liking.
I decided to do something about it and hooked up the harness to my Husky Kane and off we went for a train. I call it a train because my Husky is the engine and I am the caboose. First we went around the block, but it wasn’t long before I had him pulling me around for a mile and then two and finally three miles.
To this day I praise him in the help of my recovery. Thus, partially saving my life. If not for him I’m sure I’d still be shuffling like George Burns in his nineties rather then the almost full strides I do today.
Weight: 267
Blood Sugar: 173
Short bursts of fast walking could hold the key to managing diabetes, according to a study.
Researchers found that patients who alternated between three minutes of rapid walking and three minutes of slow walking over an hour had better control of blood sugar levels than those who walked at a constant pace.
Traditionally, those with diabetes have been advised to stick to walking at a moderate pace and avoid high-intensity exercise in case it causes injury and discourages them from keeping active.
But scientists from Copenhagen University found interval walking training – or alternating between fast and slow walking – had greater health benefits and led to better control of blood sugar levels, a key marker for type 2 diabetes.
The research is published in Diabetologia, the journal of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes.
The Danish study involved patients aged between 57 and 61 who had type 2 diabetes and were receiving a variety of medications except insulin. Eight were randomly assigned to a control group, 12 to a continuous walking training group and 12 to an interval walking training (IWT) group.
The two walking groups were instructed to train for one hour, five times a week, during the four-month study period.
Their activity was tracked using a heart rate monitor and a training computer that included an accelerometer to measure their speed and movement.
After feeling poorly for a week I took Kane for a train this morning and went beyond our normal 2 miles for a total of 2.72 miles in 51.03 minutes which shaved off about 30 seconds per mile for an average of 18.47 min/mi
Here’s my first pair of diabetic shoes. I was afraid that I was going to have to get a pair that looked as if Frankenstein wore them, but these are styling as well as comfortable.
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