Updated June 09, 2015.

Exercise is an important part of a healthy life, but when you have type 2 diabetes, exercise is essential for helping you manage the disease. Regular exercise helps you lose weight and keep it off. It also can help you lower your blood glucose levels and prevent serious complications, such as foot and lower extremity problems, eye disease and kidney disease.

Experts recommend at least 30 minutes a day, five days a week.

Many people don't get even that much exercise, and the consequences can be dire.

Do You Get Enough Exercise?

• A Sedentary Lifestyle and Diabetes
• Diet and Exercise Lowers Risk of Type 2 Diabetes
• But I Hate to Exercise

Getting it in Gear:

• Get Physical: Why Exercise Helps People with Diabetes
• Exercising with Diabetes

Where Do I Start?

• Walking and Diabetes
• Swimming for Diabetes: How to Take the Plunge
• Cross Training for Diabetes

Preventing Injury:

• When Exercise Hurts
• What is Diabetic Neuropathy?
• Top Ten Foot Care Tips

Getting Kids in on the Act:

• Keep Your Kids Free of Type 2 Diabetes
• Keeping Active - Diabetes Camps and Kids