Lie #3: “I exercise every day!”
Just 19% of people with diabetes get the physical activity they need; in nationwide phone surveys, one in three told the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention researchers they hadn’t exercised at all in the past month. If your blood sugar’s high and you’re secretly not exercising, your doctor may increase your drug dosage or change medications because she thinks you’re doing all you can.
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