The Camino de Santiago for Diabetics?A group of people begins to prepare to travel for five stages in June
The 'Challenge walks through diabetes to Santiago' has already officially started, and has done so with its first phase of previous preparation, of three months, in which several diabetics coordinated by the Navarra Diabetes Association (Anadi) participate (Anadi).
This challenge, promoted by the Bas Van de Goor Foundation, will take several diabetes patients in Navarra and the region of El Bierzo to travel in the month of June to five stages of the French road, between Astorga and O Cebreiro, a goal for theThey are already preparing.
The objective of this challenge is to demonstrate the benefits that daily physical activity has in diabetics to control their disease, in addition to helping them improve their lifestyle.You also want to raise awareness in the importance of sport in the prevention of types of diabetes most related to sedentary life and overweight.
To be able to tour these five stages of the Camino de Santiago, which will take place between June 11 and 16, the participants have begun to prepare three months before, carrying out in Group of Senderimo Days three times a week by increasing the difficulty.
In this way, in addition to the necessary physical preparation, they will be taught to know their illness more thoroughly and how they can contradict it better with their own means.At the time of performing the five stages of the Camino de Santiago, it will be monitored to carry out a study of how the Jacobean route influences its glucose level, body weight, etc.
