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Living with Diabetes in India is a skill one learns to master with frequent festivities and exchange of sweets along with occasion based fasting periods like Ramadan, Navratri or even individual days of fasting depending on faith and religion. Maintaining healthy blood glucose levels demands proactive approach amidst all the delicacies being served at every Indian occasion. Fasting is considered …

Living with diabetes involves being proactively aware of the patterns of your blood sugar levels and consequently taking corrective measures with respect to your diet and lifestyle. Fluctuations in normal sugar levels, mostly when the readings rise to a higher limit, is a concern which needs to be addressed diligently by diabetics. Management of diabetes essentially involves maintaining balanced blood …

Before we understand diabetes management without medication, it is important to know that people generally refer to blood glucose and blood sugar. High amounts of blood sugar levels can eat away our internal organs. It can even lead to serious illnesses like Diabetes. Blood glucose levels can be determined by taking blood sample- in a fasted state or at least …

We all are addicted to some kind of beverage in the morning. A majority of people prefer to have a cup of coffee to start their day. And then these increases to multiple cups in a day. Excessive consumption on caffeinated beverages is extremely harmful for our body. It increases heart beat : This starts to happen 15 minutes post …

Karela or bitter gourd lowers blood sugar levels and triglyceride levels. But this does not mean it has to be consumed by just diabetic patients.It is a long believed myth that Karela should be consumed only and if you have diabetes. The reality is that Karela can be consumed by people of all ages, suffering or not from diabetes. Karela …

If you are a diabetic person, you already have a defined diet chart, medications and loads of health advice. Diabetes is not the end of the world! You still not need to stop living or enjoying good fashion. How do you deal with this? If you have a diabetic condition it is a possible risk that you might lose sensation …

Diabetes is a chronic ailment that occurs when the pancreas cannot make good use of the insulin it produces. Diabetes occurs when blood glucose also called blood sugar gets too high. Blood sugar is the main source of energy and is obtained from the food we eat. The hormone insulin is formed by pancreas and helps glucose from food to …

Your diabetes can turn simple flu into a serious problem. This is because, diabetes can make the immune system less able to battle infections and can make it harder for you to control blood sugar. Should you start worrying? Before you get paranoid, diabetes care can help you manage this better. What if you don’t catch the flu? That comes …

Hypoglycemia or low blood sugar is a condition where in the body is unable to get enough glucose supply for proper cell functioning. In such a condition, the body responds with certain warning signs or symptoms of diabetes which may be different for every individual and include: • Weakness • Shakiness • Sweating • Irritability or confusion • Hunger • …

Maintaining healthy blood sugar levels goes a long way in living healthy with type 2 diabetes. Normal blood sugar levels tend to spike when after meal the sugar content in your blood rises and falls drastically. As time passes by, your body turns incapable of using insulin effectively and this can lead to type 2 diabetes. Diabetes care begins with …