Interval Walking By Diabetics Improves Glucose Metabolism

Type 2 diabetics would better manage their blood sugar levels if they did interval walking – alternating speeds during a walk – rather than constant-speed walking, according to Danish research. Diabetics in the study were divided into three groups: a control, an interval-walking group, and a continuous-walking group. The researchers found that blood sugar control improved significantly in the interval-walking group only, probably because of improved glucose metabolism. No changes occurred in the continuous-walking or control groups.