Simple lifestyle strategies to reduce sitting time and replace it with either standing or, even better, light physical activity improve metabolism, and for people with type 2 diabetes can prevent and help “sponge up” rising blood glucose levels if insulin isn’t being produced properly.īreaking up sitting every hour with just two or three minutes of walking can make a difference to glucose control compared with prolonged and uninterrupted sitting. Reducing sitting time is a good “ first step” because it appears more achievable for many and less daunting than a new exercise regime, especially for people who have been highly inactive or who live with a chronic health condition. Moving out of lockdownĪs we transition to Covid-normal, we must leave lockdown levels of physical inactivity and sedentary behaviour behind. Getting moving effectively improves glucose control, blood pressure, vascular health and memory. Our research highlights regular movement as a key way to help manage diabetes and help prevent complications. Recent reports point to an even wider range of diabetes impacts like increased risk of liver disease, dementia, depression, and some cancers. This can progress to common diabetes complications such as blindness, nerve damage, heart disease and kidney disease. In type 2 diabetes, repeated fluctuations in blood glucose levels eventually mean the body doesn’t respond properly with insulin – the hormone produced that allows glucose to go from the blood to the cells. Most of these people live with type 2 diabetes, a chronic condition that affects the way the body processes blood sugar (glucose). A growing global problemĭata from the International Diabetes Federation’s 10th Diabetes Atlas, officially launched today, shows about 10% of the world’s population aged 20–79 now live with diabetes, and diabetes prevalence is predicted to steadily increase to around 784 million adults by 2045. Reducing sitting time is a good starting place to help people with diabetes, pre-diabetes and other chronic conditions to reach healthier levels of physical activity. Now lockdowns have eased in many places, it is vital we get moving again – and in the right way – to change this picture. Some estimates indicate the pandemic added an average three hours to our sitting time each day. One particularly concerning example is an increase to sedentary behaviour (sitting down for long periods of time), which was already at dangerous levels pre-Covid. Over this same time period, Covid has stopped us doing some of the things that help prevent and manage diabetes. New figures show global diabetes prevalence has increased by 16% in the past two years, with 537 million adults (aged 20-79) now estimated to be living with the chronic condition.
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