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How healthy life can works wonders in Diabetes type 2 ?

“The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will involve the patient in the proper use of food, fresh air, and exercise.” – Thomas Edison We all know someone in our life who always is obsessive about healthy eating but at some point or the other, we slide it under the rug and give in to the glamor of unhealthy food choices and lifestyle. It is understandable if you get attracted towards that delicious cake in your friend’s birthday party, but after being diagnosed with diabetes or even before getting to the doors of the disease could be an alarming bell you if not being handled wisely— Dr. Vinod Methil, Sweet Clinics Mumbai. It’s not your fight with Type 2 Diabetes, your family lives with it as well! According to Diabetologist in Navi Mumbai , Out of 62 million Indians diagnosed with diabetes, which is nearly 7.2% of the adult population. Around 1 million Indians decease because of diabetes every year. Diabetes usually affects in the age range of 35-40 and beyon

Diabetic Foot Care: Taking the Right Steps

Nowadays, the whole world is being concerned with a major health problem, which is diabetes. A very common symptom of diabetes is a diabetic foot ulcer. Foot disease affects one in six people with diabetes worldwide and this includes infection, ulceration, or destruction of tissues of the foot. Diabetes causes, loss of sensation in feet caused by diabetic neuropathy & Ischemia of lower limbs due to decreased blood flow in legs. This leads to numbness in feet in Diabetic patients and moreover, these feet are also starved of proper blood supply because of Diabetes. Over & above these factors, the trigger event usually is a small foot trauma, so small that it is usually forgotten by the patient, but this easily progresses to the formation of foot ulcer. The only way to prevent this is by screening. The aim of screening is to identify high-risk Diabetic patients who can develop a foot ulcers. This is done by assessing the loss of sensation in the feet by 10 g monofilament test o