What causes diabetes and how does exercise keep it away

Regarding exercise and diabetes--

It won't keep diabetes away, but it helps your body deal witht the sugar circulating in your blood.

Exercise causes the lean muscles to demand sugar, so, instead of the sugar (created by the food you eat), staying in circulation, in your blood and other body fluids, causing a stickiness and damaging cells and organs, eyes and limbs, it gets used, or 'burned up', by the muscles which use it to create energy. Then, if there's not enough circulating, the body draws it from stored fat.

It's a complicated process. And sometimes, when exercising, diabetics can't pull, or convert, the stored fat fast enough, or as fast as the muscles need it if the exercise is prolonged or highly aerobic. That could lead to hypoglycemia.

Therefore, a diabetic should test their blood sugar if they feel light headed, and if going out for a long walk, run or hike, always take along a sugar snack to nibble on and water to keep hydrated.

There are a lot of good sites and books for diabetics to study and learn about what is happening to them, pertaining to exercise, foods, fluid intake and medicines. Because the organs that normally cause such actions/changes to be dealt with automatically are no longer functioning properly, you need to understand what your personal condition is, how controlled the blood sugar is, by medication, diet and exercise, etc., and take the initiative to get back in control by your own training and learning all there is to know about being a diabetic.