For four months, they will prepare to make six stages of the Navarrese road between May 27 and June 3.
The group of people with diabetes of associations of Navarra, Vizcaya, Guipúzcoa, Álava and El Bierzo who will participate in the challenge walks through diabetes to Santiago have begun this Saturday in Alsasua their training.
During the next four months, all of them will participate in a training program to prepare this challenge, which will take place in six stages of the Navarrese road and will begin on May 27 in Roncesvalles, ending on June 3 in Logroño.
It is an initiative promoted by the Diabetes Foundation, with the support of Novo Nordisk, which has as its main objective "to change the mentality of the greatest possible number of people with diabetes, motivating them and instilling in them the need to incorporate physical exercise into theireveryday life and, at the same time, convey the message that sports can be done with diabetes and overcome any challenge, "the Foundation explained.
This project consists of two different itineraries (the Navarrese road and the Portuguese road) and both contemplate a previous training period, supervised by one or more doctors or educators.
In the case of the Navarro road, it has the participation of a group of people with diabetes of associations of Navarra, Vizcaya, Guipúzcoa, Álava and El Bierzo, among others.This part of the challenge of the Diabetes Foundation has been organized in collaboration with the Navarra Association of Diabetes (ANADI) and the Bas Van de Goor Foundation.
Seven stages of the Portuguese road
In parallel, another group of people from Diabetes Associations of Madrid, Valladolid, Zamora, Zaragoza and Galicia participates in the second itinerary, among others.This group will carry out the same training and participate in seven stages of the Portuguese road, between the town of Tui and Santiago de Compostela from June 2 to 9.
Participants of the Challenge Walk through Diabetes 2018 will be part of a scientific study that will analyze the benefits of physical activity in improving the control of type 1 and 2 diabetes, both during the training program and in the different stages of the Camino de Santiago.
This research will be coordinated by Serafín Murillo, nutrition and sports advisor of the Diabetes Foundation, and researcher at the Diabetes Unit and Cyberdem Exercise of the Clinic Hospital in Barcelona.In his opinion, "the practice of physical exercise regularly has many beneficial effects for patients with diabetes, even beyond those related to the improvement of glycemic control."
In the various walks there will be voluntary assistance from different health professionals related to this pathology, such as doctors, nurses, physiotherapists and dietitians, among others.In addition, after each day, training sessions will be held, in which participants can share experiences and learn to better control their diabetes.