Exercise

Exercise helps you keep well. Every little bit helps.

Exercise:

• Lowers blood glucose levels
   
• Lowers blood pressure
   
• Helps people lose weight
   
• Reduces the risk of heart disease and death by heart attack
   

Good ways to exercise are:

           Riding a Bike                            Mopping                        Gardening                   Hanging out Clothes           

Remember to: 

wear comfortable shoes

Take some water and have a drink when you are thirsty

Stop exercising if you feel tired or unwell and tell someone

Take your Hypo Kit

Wear some form of diabetes identification, especially if you are medication or taking insulin.

Talk to your doctor about when you need to test your blood glucose levels and what food to eat when exercising.

  Write down:

What exercise you like

The times you do it

The days you do it