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Do you know how to eat if you have Diabetes?
How to eat is just as important as what to eat for people with diabetes. Here are all those small blunders that you can correct and get right back on track It goes without saying that you need to develop a healthy eating plan if you have diabetes (or prediabetes). Your diet must help you…
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Why Vitamin B12 Deficiency Matters, Especially If You are A Vegetarian and have Diabetes
If you are a vegetarian, read closely. If you are a vegetarian and have diabetes sit up and take note. Along with a large swathe of you fellow citizens, you are likely to be deficient in vitamin B12—one of the essential vitamins that the human body procures from non-vegetarian sources and plays a key role in healthy blood…
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Gut Health And Type-2 Diabetes Risk: Expert Decodes The Link
Diabetes: Your gut health is responsible for several body functions. You might be surprised to know that there is a strong link between gut health and your type-2 diabetes risk. Read here to know this link. The gut microbe is linked with your overall health not just your digestion. According to studies, there is a…
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ALL ABOUT DIABETIC FOOT
Let’s take a quiz: of the terrible tolls diabetes can take on the body, what puts people in the hospital the most? Heart disease, stroke, kidney failure? No, none of these. It is a largely vastly ignored, largely under-reported, yet one of the most serious complications of the disease: diabetic foot, a major public health problem in…
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Practical Diabetes Management Tips for Type 1 Diabetes
At the age of 11, I was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes in September 1992. I was put on Mix-Insulin therapy, which meant injecting myself twice a day, meals and meal timings were fixed and deviating from them meant either my Sugars to go high or low. The only way to ascertain the Sugar levels…
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Penning Her Story
Deeply upset that her class boys were running away from her whenever she attempted to move around in class, Niky sought a creative way to give vent to her feelings and sense of injustice by writing a humorous piece called “The Mixed Bag’, which brought out the realities of the gender equation that existed in…
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The rigors of living with disabilities
The fact that we are living in an unequal world becomes apparent when you have a family member with a disability or you are disabled yourself. Every living being is worthy of respect and resources on earth suited to their own existence, but this truth has not been recognized by most societies. In a country…
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Settling for a Sugar Free Life
When a child is diagnosed with Type1 Diabetes, the first shock for the child and the family is not about making lasting lifestyle changes, but it is about the fact that the child has to be on insulin injections and finger pricks several times a day, all her life. That was the situation back then…
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The Thirst for Life
I was recovering from brain surgery. We had shifted to a rented house and my husband went to stay there with our two little girls. He had landed a new job and he organized a full-time caretaker for the kids. I stayed at my mother’s place and within a month of my surgery moved to…