201 Tips for Diabetes Patients

By Dr. Bimal Chhajer

In this book, you will find all the diabetes related queries that you could think of about diet, stress, exercises and other miscellaneous queries are answered in a very simple language. You must not have got such simple answers before.
Diabetes is a very common illness in the modern times. The number of diabetes patients is rapidly growing all over the world including India. It is a chronic disease and a slow killer — killing people by damaging the. kidney, causing heart disease, coma or by gangrene formation. With no permanent remedy at site — there is a silver lining. This disease can be completely controlled by lifestyle management, education and changes in diet habits. In advanced cases allopathic as well as ayurvedic drugs and insulin, in combination of lifestyle changes, can keep the diabetic patient completely healthy.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Diamond Books
• Release date: Apr 15, 2021
• ISBN: 9789385975127

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Glossary

SECTION - A

WHAT IS DIABETES?

Diabetes mellitus is, today, a very well known and common disease— where there is increased glucose or sugar level in the blood and despite this the body cells can not utilize the glucose. This disease is mainly due to deficiency of a chemical called Insulin - which is released in the blood by the pancreas.

Diabetes mellitus (also known as hyperglycemia, high sugar, high glucose, madhumeha, glucose intolerance) literally means sweet urine - as it was found that diabetes patients often have more amount of sugar in the urine. When it occurs with high blood pressure and obesity this disease is also called "metabolic syndrome". This disease is called mellitus - to distinguish it from a rare disease called diabetes insipidus - where there is excess urine formation but there is no glucose or sugar in the urine. Since out of the two diabetes mellitus is very common-the disease is casually referred to as