Type 2 diabetes wondering whether exercise is “worth it” now have a clear answer from a new research study out or Brazil.

In this study of 145 type 2 diabetics, 12-weeks of exercise was associated with dramatically lower levels of HbA1C –an indicator of blood glucose control over a 90-day period.

What makes the results from this study unique is that they found exercise’s benefit to be minimal unless it was combined with healthy eating.

This study, published in the May 2011 Journal of the American Medical Association, also discovered the threshold level where exercise begins to significantly benefit diabetes.

While nearly any amount can aid in stress reduction and weight loss, they found that 150 minutes per week aerobic exercise and resistance training was required to drop HbA1C to healthy levels.

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