Personal Training Services

Weight Training can benefit people with diabetes a lot. See my earlier post here about it. Sandra Alvarez is a personal trainer in St Catharines and does on site and in home training. She also can provide valuable exercise and nutrition information. Check it out you'll be glad you did.

Visit Sandra's Website - http://www.alvarezfitness.ca/

Or email her - sandra101fit@yahoo.com

*** Say your from SOADI and receive 10% OFF.

Diabetes on the Rise

Ontario's health ministry predicts 1.2 million people in the province will have diabetes by 2010, more than double the figure from the year 2000.

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Team Diabetes members conquer Ottawa Marathon

Call them the conquering heroes.Sandy Lake’s Stacey Fiddler and Brandon Goodman, both 24, were flanked by former Nishnawbe Aski Nation Grand Chief Bentley Cheechoo as they walked triumphantly through the terminal at the Thunder Bay International Airport May 26.Cheechoo, a Constance Lake band member, successfully completed his 10-kilometre walk and the duo from Sandy Lake completed a 10-kilometre run in the Ottawa Marathon through Team Diabetes.


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Moraviantown Pictures.

Photo's from our recent clinic in Moraviantown, Ontario, Canada. on June 6th, 2008.

Over a hundred people attend our foot care clinic. The day also included a cooking demonstration from the Wolfman,

Chef David Wolfman.

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Top 10 Walking with Diabetes Tips

The experts agree -- walking and other exercise is the prescription for people with diabetes. The American Diabetes Association says there is no restriction on what exercise diabetics can do, and it is the best way to prevent weight gain and cardiovascular disease -- the top killer of diabetics.

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Weight Training and Diabetes

The word is out! For people with diabetes, physical activity is a must or as we say in our program, "It’s non-negotiable." Whether one chooses to increase daily steps in a walking program, bicycling, water aerobics or dancing the benefits are inevitable. Blood glucose, blood pressure, cholesterol are all better controlled and of course weight loss in the form of fat loss occurs. Let us not forget, however the importance of weight/resistance training and its role in achieving improved physical activity.

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