“Can a diabetes diet include desserts?” This is a relevant question for diabetics, especially when we are right in the middle of the festival season. The answer is a happy yes, with some adjustments. Living with diabetes need not mean giving up sweets, particularly when our culture includes festivals and cuisines that excel in delicious…
Working towards normal blood glucose levels ensures high energy levels, faster healing, fewer infections and a lower risk of diabetes complications. Being diagnosed with diabetes can be devastating, at least initially. Then again, here is the flip side: being diagnosed is a life saver, as we are all familiar with the havoc diabetes can wreak…
You haven’t been great at heeding the warnings of your physician and now your prediabetes condition has progressed into full-blown Diabetes. Is it too late to fix this?! Of course not. But how to make the shift in treatment and management? How to update your care routine? While diabetes cannot be reversed, certain measures such…
Diabetes comes with a long list of do’s and don’ts and considering that people with diabetes are more prone to falling sick or getting an infection, there’s always the fear of whether antibiotics are safe for those with diabetes. Diabetes is a growing epidemic today—especially type 2 diabetes—as it has turned into a lifestyle disease.…
Is it possible to prevent type 2 diabetes, even if you are diagnosed with prediabetes? Many scientists believe that this is possible. However, in order to prevent or reduce your risk of developing type 2 diabetes, it’s important to take action now. The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) report that more than 30 million people…