Beach jogging for weight loss: safe and effective versus the contraindications of blood sugar-lowering pills for weight loss**

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Why is jogging on the beach considered a safe and effective way to lose weight?

Nowadays, there are countless exercise options for weight loss. If you are looking for an exercise that can help you get fit and lose weight without damaging your knees and ankles, and that can truly burn fat and improve your cardiovascular system, then beach jogging is the way to go.

Beach jogging for weight loss originated in the United States and is now popular in developed countries in Europe and America. Because the sand cushions the body's weight, beach jogging will not cause damage to the joints and muscles of the lower limbs. However, running on hard surfaces can easily cause injuries to the knee and ankle joints.

Running on the beach provides much greater resistance than running on land, which accelerates blood flow, increases oxygen intake, and produces particles that specifically cleanse the walls of blood vessels of fat and cholesterol, keeping them clear, preventing cardiovascular diseases.

Generally speaking, slow-paced, moderate-intensity aerobic exercise is primarily for burning fat, and beach jogging is such an exercise.

A US-based beach jogging research institution conducted a six-month beach jogging training program on a group of volunteers and found that the volunteers' nervous, cardiovascular, respiratory, and digestive systems all showed general improvement.

Why are there contraindications to using blood sugar-lowering pills for weight loss?

The chemical name for this blood sugar-lowering tablet is metformin, which belongs to the biguanide class of oral hypoglycemic drugs. It is a hypoglycemic and weight-loss drug with both significant efficacy and side effects.

Firstly, it has a strong hypoglycemic effect, promoting the absorption of glucose from the blood by muscle tissue and accelerating the consumption of sugar in the body. Secondly, it can also promote the breakdown of glucose, thereby reducing and delaying the absorption of glucose in the gastrointestinal tract and lowering the blood sugar level.

At the same time, it can increase the sensitivity of muscle and fat tissue to insulin, increase the excretion of fat in feces, and cause calorie loss.

In addition, it has a good weight loss and blood sugar lowering effect for obese diabetic patients. In particular, it can also have a mild weight loss effect for obese people who have not responded to other weight loss methods for a long time.

Some experiments have shown that, under the same dietary conditions, those who take blood sugar-lowering pills lose 20% more weight than those who don't. This drug can cause 80% to 90% of obese people to lose weight, with an average weight loss of 3 to 3.5 kilograms in the first 6 months.

There's a strange phenomenon with hypoglycemic tablets: the longer the treatment course, the less effective they become. Therefore, it's best to take hypoglycemic tablets for 3 months, stop for 2 months, and then start taking them again; this will yield better results.

Blood sugar lowering tablets also have many side effects, mainly nausea, vomiting, loss of appetite, and diarrhea, but these symptoms generally disappear after taking the medication for a period of time.

In addition, symptoms such as fatigue, weakness, and a metallic taste in the mouth may occur, but these will disappear after reducing the dosage. Blood sugar-lowering tablets can also inhibit the absorption of vitamin B12, certain amino acids, and bile, easily leading to vitamin B12 deficiency.

The biggest side effect of blood sugar lowering tablets is that they can induce lactic acidosis. Blood sugar lowering tablets produce lactic acid in the body, and lactic acid depends on liver metabolism and kidney excretion.

If people with impaired liver or kidney function take hypoglycemic tablets, the lactic acid produced cannot be metabolized and excreted from the body, which will lead to lactic acidosis, causing fatigue and even endangering life.

Therefore, it should be absolutely prohibited for people with liver or kidney damage, heart failure, myocardial infarction, alcohol poisoning, and the elderly.