More than Just Relaxation - Ultrasonic Hot Spa Can be good for Diabetes Patients

Diabetes is a life-long disease marked by high levels of sugar in the blood.  There is no cure for diabetes.  It can be caused by too little insulin (a hormone produced by the pancreas to regulate blood sugar), resistance to insulin, or both. Diabetes is also known as diabetes mellitus. 

There are three major types of diabetes:

• People with type 1 diabetes cannot make their own insulin.  Daily insulin injections are required.

• People with type 2 diabetes make insulin but cannot use it effectively.  Diabetes mellitus type 2 is a metabolic disorder and usually occurs in people over 30 years.

• Gestational diabetes is high blood glucose that develops at any time during pregnancy in a person who does not have diabetes.

Diabetes type 2 can usually be controlled by diet and exercise.  As the insulin production in pancreas is still possible but impaired, it often does not necessitate the use of insulin injections.  Obesity is a major risk factor for this type of diabetes and, unfortunately, increasingly more people, including children, are too sedentary and too fat.  About 90% of individuals who have diabetes suffer from type 2 diabetes.  Non-insulin dependent diabetes treatment centers mainly around diet and regular exercise.

High Risk factors for Developing Type 2 Diabetes include:

• people 45 years and above

• obesity problem where the rate is double compared to those within healthy weight range

• those who have given birth to a large baby, over 4.0 kg (9 lbs)

• have a previous diagnosis of impaired glucose tolerance.

Lifestyle changes are usually used as the first course of action by doctors, instead of medications, to control glucose levels.  This includes:

• Limiting your fat intake as well as cholesterol through diet.

• Minor weight loss or weight control (for people with Type 2 diabetes) to improve blood glucose levels.  Unfortunately, a side effect of the Type 2 diabetes medications is weight gain.

• For type 1 diabetes, exercise can be balanced with your meal plan and insulin to control your diabetes. For type 2 diabetes, exercise helps to increase the sensitivity of your body cells to insulin. With this increased sensitivity, your own insulin works better and your blood sugar levels get better.

It has been found that soaking in a ultrasound hot tub can be beneficial for people with type 2 Diabetes.  People with this type of diabetes can often control their condition with proper weight management, good diet and regular exercise.  However, many of these people are unable to endure rigorous activity physically as well as to maintain a steady weight.  Many of them may even have difficulty in performing activities of daily living such as walking.  Therefore, doing the regular exercise may do more harm than good for these groups of people. 

The ultrasonic far-infrared massage bubble bath will be excellent in these situations.  During the bath, an individual are immersed in warm, ultrasonic and far-Infrared bath.  The ultrasonic bubbles produce 10,000-15,000 micro-tremors per second, delivering 1.5 kg/cm2 of pressure on the body and this produce an effect on the body similar to exercise.  It has been reported that 15 minutes of use of the Ultrasound Bath produces an effect on the body equivalent to jogging 3 to 5 km.   

Find out how to use the ultrasonic spa bath machine as a passive exercise machine and achieve all the benefits of exercising.

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