Benefits of physical exercise on type 2 diabetes mellitus: a review study

Due to the advancement of science and technology, through studies, man can diagnose and prevent various diseases, and because of this it is possible to increase lifeexpectancy. Physical exercise has been increasingly recognized as an alternative form, a non-pharmacological treatment of diseases. Diabetes Mellitus has been presented as one of the factors that most trigger deaths, among other symptoms that completely change the lives of its patients. This work is a literature review that aims to identify in the literature produced scientific studiesthat point out the effects of aerobic physical exercise in people with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus that have been published in the last ten years in the Scielo database. The search resulted in studies that met the inclusion criteria and that allowed an analysis about the proposed theme. Through this survey, it was possible to verify several benefits, among them reduction of blood glucose. Thus, aerobic physical exercise has positive effects on the lives of type 2 diabetic patients, and it is recognized that there is a need to develop further research that may advance this theme.