Movement
A walk after eating
Ten minutes after your largest meal does more for blood sugar than an hour at another time.
What to do
Ten to fifteen minutes of easy walking within half an hour of your biggest meal. Pace does not matter. Around the block is enough.
Put your shoes on before you sit down after dinner.
On a hard day: Out the front door and back.
When you might notice
The blood sugar effect is immediate. How you feel takes a couple of weeks.
Roughly what it costs
Free
What it takes
12 minutes · no equipment
What this is based on
Light walking shortly after eating blunts the post-meal blood sugar rise, and short walks after meals outperform the same total time taken elsewhere in the day.
Well established
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