Sheri R. Colberg

Many people who are stuck at home for one reason or another think they can't work on staying fit, but the truth is that you can get a stronger core and stay fitter without leaving home. You'd be amazed at how easy it is to get fit. Your body core — the muscles around your trunk and pelvis — is particularly important to keep strong so that you can go about your normal daily activities and prevent falls and injuries, particularly as you age.

When you're trying to keep fit and manage your Diabetes, you can do many different static stretches to flex your joints. Here are a few simple ones to get you started.Neck stretchIllustration provided by the American Diabetes Association and David Priess. Your neck is one of the main places you tense up when you’re stressed.

Some people have symptoms of diabetes or prediabetes before they're diagnosed, but many more never have any or realize that any symptoms they're having are related to diabetes. You need to recognize diabetes symptoms, both the classic and the subtle ones, to ensure that you get the necessary tests.Annual checkups— particularly when you're getting older — that measure your fasting blood glucose are important.

What's your risk for getting diabetes? It has gone up substantially in the past few decades. In fact, anyone born in the United States from the year 2000 forward has a one-in-three chance of developing diabetes during his or her lifetime, and the incidence is closer to 50 percent if you're part of a minority group (like African Americans, Hispanics, or Native Americans).

Keeping fit with Diabetes is more important to living well than you can possibly know. In fact, it's likely the most critical behavior you can adopt to impact how well your insulin works in your body. Insulin resistance is linked to multiple health problems, including type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, reduced blood flow, inflammation, heart disease, and many more.

Regardless of which type of diabetes you have, you can become resistant to the effects of the hormone insulin, even if you have to pump or inject it instead of making your own. That fact makes insulin resistance relevant to everyone with diabetes of any type or prediabetes. Think of insulin resistance with a lock and key analogy.

The human body has to manage its own blood glucose, which it does quite effectively in most people most of the time. You have to have enough glucose in your blood; it's required for your brain and your nerves to function properly. The amount in blood is regulated by a hormone called insulin. This article explains how these two components work.

Diabetes comes in many forms — type 1, type 2, and gestational are the most common forms — as well as being tied to the related condition prediabetes. The following discussion gives you a glimpse into these conditions. Type 1 diabetes About 5 to 10 percent of people have type 1 diabetes, which equates to around 1.