Sports and diabetes, If you don't participate, if you avoid exercise, will your body become rancid? Some people say they smell most rancid after they exercise. But, we are not talking odor here, we are talking rot - more specifically, a steady deterioration in tissue health.

Motivation, that's the key. Unfortunately most of us have lost our motivation to exercise. 'If you don't exercise you'll look like hell,' doesn't put a burr in my pants, I've always looked like hell. But the other day I did read something that did jar me off the couch. Read on to see what it was about the concept of sports and diabetes that was so inspiring.

If you're growing a gut, face it, you are not soft and cuddly anymore, you are a fatso. Maybe worse, maybe fatso to the bone. A visceral fat mass, that's what you get when you are physically inactive and eat too many bad things. Visceral fat is greasy globs of fat wrapped around your gut surrounded by greasy globs of fat just under your skin.

The bomber got there because of all of that rich food you've been throwing back. But he really got going when your activity died off. Exercise could have stopped it.

Visceral fat is where all the action in when it comes to burning you down to the ground. Systemic inflammation, can put you into the ground. And, all of this is tied to that bomb factory, the visceral fat bound to your gut which encourages systemic inflammation.

Now, here's a kick, you can't see systemic inflammation. When it pops up out of the toaster, you're charred. It smolders unnoticed until the damage shows up so late it's hard to reverse it.

Myokines are enzymes, expediters, released by skeletal muscles during exercise. They can reverse the systemic inflammation generated by visceral fat. And, they do this apparently by acting more like a hormone.

Anti-inflammatory effects are continuos as long as there is continuous exercise. Why? Because each bout of exercise can only release a set amount of beneficial enzymes. Use it or loose it works the same here as it does in buffing up. The only difference is that loosing muscle tone is much less problematic than loosing an organ like a pancreas, as with diabetes. Sports and diabetes, exceedingly beneficial

Humans were not developed as blobs, we were constructed to move. To economize, some organs made themselves dependent upon organs of movement. Leg veins depend on leg muscles to squeeze blood back into general circulation. They do this because they omitted developing their own muscles during evolution, expecting they wouldn't need them. Modern inactivity has wrecked their plans. Many of our systems are in the same fix. Nature set us up entirely for survival activities not endless inactivity. Use it or loose it is not just a saying, it's a reality of life.

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