What Is Fibre and Why You Need to Make It A Part of Your Daily Diet
It’s the most underrated of foods. It doesn’t give you taste, tang or thrill. It doesn’t give you energy or help you beat fatigue. It doesn’t give you micronutrients or calories. Your body doesn’t break it down or use it. Yet it is absolutely essential for your health and functioning metabolism. But because more and […]
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PREVENTING DIABETES
Yes, type 2 diabetes can be prevented with thoughtful lifestyle changes and plant-rich diets While there is not much you can do to prevent type 1 diabetes, for type 2 diabetes the mantra is clear: stay lean, stay active. Most cases of type 2 diabetes can be prevented, or delayed, by keeping weight under control, […]
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ARE YOU AT RISK OF DIABETES?
Keep an eye out for all the factors that may increase your risk of type 2 diabetes. By Team Dr Mohan’s A disease is often like a jigsaw puzzle, with many interlocking parts and pieces. To tame it, every piece has to fit in: why it happens, how it happens, who it happens to and […]
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Control Diabetes – Easy through HbA1c testing
Why the HbA1c testing? We are all aware that the main problem faced by patients with diabetes is to keep their blood sugar levels under control, throughout the day and day after day. How do we know that the blood sugar level is under control? The simplest way would be to check the blood sugar […]
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Important vaccines for the elderly with diabetes
Elderly people with diabetes are at more risk for the development of infections. Following are the common vaccines for diabetes which are specifically recommended for the elderly: Influenza vaccine: All adults, specifically those with diabetes, are recommended to take this vaccine annually. This vaccine fights against sinus and ear infection, pneumonia and bronchitis caused by the […]
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Risk and dangers of smoking for diabetic patients
Diabetes is a metabolic cum vascular syndrome of multiple etiology characterized by chronic hyperglycaemia with disturbances of carbohydrate, fat and protein metabolism resulting from defects in insulin secretion, insulin action or both leading to changes in both small blood vessels and large blood vessels Smoking & Diabetes Cigarette smoking and exposure to tobacco smoke are […]
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Risks and causes of prediabetes
Prediabetes is defined when the blood sugar is elevated than the normal values but not yet high enough to be diagnosed as diabetes . It is the pre-diagnosis of diabetes. Without lifestyle changes, people with prediabetes are very likely to progress to developing type 2 diabetes. Diagnosis of categories of prediabetes Impaired glucose tolerance and […]
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High-risk problems in diabetes
Diabetes is a Metabolic disorder of multiple etiology characterized by chronic hyperglycaemia with disturbances of carbohydrate, fat and protein metabolism resulting from defects in insulin secretion, insulin action or both leading to changes in both small blood vessels and large blood vessels. The high-risk problems in diabetes are retinopathy, nephropathy, neuropathy and cardiomyopathy. Patients with […]
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Importance of Exercise for Diabetes
Exercise delays the onset of diabetes, helps in control of diabetes…
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