Background In the past few decades, swimming became one of the most important physical activities within the health system and is considered a practical nonpharmacological approach to managing of type 2 diabetes (T2DM), hyperlipidemia, hypertension (HTN), and obesity. The current study aimed to assess the effect of long-term swimming sessions on glycemic and lipidemic parameters, hemodynamic responses, body fat percent, and body mass index for patients with metabolic risk factors from Palestine. Methods Forty participants from both genders with T2DM and HTN (aged 52.4 ± 5.5 yrs) agreed to participate in this quasi-experimental study and were divided into two groups. The first group included the participants who performed long-term swimming sessions and the second group served as the control. The first group exercised for 2 h, 3 times/week in 29–33 °C swimming pool temperature for 16 weeks. Simultaneously, the control group did not participate in any exercise and advised them to keep on with their everyday lifestyle. All the obtained metabolic syndrome risk factors data were analyzed using a two-way ANOVA analysis of variance (2*2) which was applied to determine the differences according group, time, and interaction. Results The results showed that there were statistically significant differences at p < 0.05 in the variables of Total Cholesterol (TC), High Density of Lipoprotein (HDL), Low Density of Lipoprotein (LDL), Triglycerides (TG), Blood Glucose (BG), Systolic Blood Pressure (SBP), Diastolic Blood Pressure (DBP), Body Mass Index (BMI), and body fat percent according to group, time, and interaction for the experimental group. Conclusions The findings of the current study suggested that the regular 16 weeks of swimming sessions could be considered nonpharmacological approaches in managing T2DM and HTN.

Background: In the past few decades, swimming became one of the most important physical activities within the health system and is considered a practical nonpharmacological approach to managing of type 2 diabetes (T2DM), hyperlipidemia, hypertension (HTN), and obesity. The current study aimed to assess the effect of long-term swimming sessions on glycemic and lipidemic parameters, hemodynamic responses, body fat percent, and body mass index for patients with metabolic risk factors from Palestine. Methods: Forty participants from both genders with T2DM and HTN (aged 52.4±5.5 yrs) agreed to participate in this quasi-experimental study and were divided into two groups. The first group included the participants who performed long-term swimming sessions and the second group served as the control. The first group exercised for 2 h, 3 times/week in 29-33◦C swimming pool temperature for 16 weeks. Simultaneously, the control group did not participate in any exercise and advised them to keep on with their everyday lifestyle. All the obtained metabolic syndrome risk factors data were analyzed using a two-way ANOVA analysis of variance (2*2) which was applied to determine the differences according group, time, and interaction.Results: The results showed that there were statistically significant differences at p < 0.05 in the variables of Total Cholesterol (TC), High Density of Lipoprotein (HDL), Low Density of Lipoprotein (LDL), Triglycerides (TG), Blood Glucose (BG), Systolic Blood Pressure (SBP), Diastolic Blood Pressure (DBP), Body Mass Index (BMI), and body fat percent according to group, time, and interaction for the experimental group.Conclusions: The findings of the current study suggested that the regular 16 weeks of swimming sessions could be considered nonpharmacological approaches in managing T2DM and HTN.

During the last century there were significant changes in elucidating the role of functional foods on the human's health. Recently the global interest is focusing on the natural diets due to their important role on the physical and physiological performances. The current study aimed to evaluate the synergistic effect of watermelon juice and aquatic exercises on some physical fitness and physiological variables depending on experimental and reference groups. Thirty-six students (18 males and 18 females) in the age (19-22) from the Physical Education Department at An-Najah National University volunteered to participate in the experiment. An anthropometric measurement was performed alongside with specific medical examinations to determine the effect of both aquatic and watermelon juice and aquatic exercises alone on some physical fitness and physiological variables. The results show that both, watermelon juice and aquatic exercises, revealed statistically significant differences at p value < 0.05 compared with aquatic exercises alone. In case of gender, male and female the F-values were found significant at p ˂ 0.05 for the variables (endurance, sprint 30m, sit up, total cholesterol, high density lipoproteins). Furthermore, these findings indicated that male students were better than female students in (endurance, sprint 30 m, sit up test, and total cholesterol); in contrast female students had more high-density lipoproteins than male students. The synergistic effects of watermelon juice with aqua exercises improved the performance and physiological variables for the experimental group.

Background: Swimming and other aquatic fitness are important aerobic exercises that have been proposed as an effective nonpharmacological approach in the management of type 2 diabetes (T2DM), hyperlipidemia, and hypertension (HTN). The current study aimed to assess the effect of long-term swimming sessions on glycemic and lipidemic parameters, body composition, and hemodynamic responses for patients with metabolic risk factors. Methods: Forty participants from both genders with T2DM and HTN (aged 52.4±5.5 yrs) agreed to take part in this quasi-experimental study and were divided into two groups. The first group included the participants who performed long-term swimming sessions and the second group served as the reference. The first group exercised for 2 h, 3 times/week in 29-33 ◦C swimming pool for 16 weeks. While the reference group did not participate in any kind of exercise and advised to keep on with their normal lifestyle. All the obtained metabolic syndrome risk factors data were analyzed using a paired t-test which was applied to separately determine the differences between pre- and post-tests for both genders and groups, and the percentage of change (Δ %) was computed. Independent t-test was applied to determine the differences in the post-tests (Exp. vs Ref) in men patients as well as for women separately. Results: The results showed that there were statistically significant differences at p ≤ 0.05 between pre- and post- exercise concerning Total Cholesterol (TC), High-Density Lipoproteins (HDL), Low-Density Lipoproteins (LDL), Triglycerides (TG), glycemic parameters, systolic and diastolic blood pressures, body mass index (BMI) and fat mass percent in favor of posttests in the experimental group for both genders. Whereas, no significant differences were found at p≤0.05 between pre- and post-tests for all studied variables in the reference group for both genders. Significant differences were found at p≤0.05 on the post-tests in favor of the experimental for both genders.Conclusion: Findings of the current study suggested that the regular 16 weeks of the conducted swimming sessions could be considered as nonpharmacological approaches in the management of T2DM and HTN.