Walking Can Blunt a Blood Glucose Rise

Walk it off. You can blunt the effect of a post-meal blood glucose spike by taking an after-dinner walk. In a small study, researchers at Old Dominion University in Virginia found that participants’ post-meal blood glucose reading was lower when they took a 20-minute stroll after dinner than when they walked before eating.
Source: Journal of the American Medical Directors Association, July 2009

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