Blood Sugar & Spice Living with Diabetes

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India is the diabetes capital of the world. Yet, diabetes can be prevented or controlled with the help of the right natural cure. Charmaine D'Souza has more than 24 years of practice dealing with diabetes and has a host of celebrity clients including Karan Johar, Rani Mukerji, and Naresh Goyal. She tells us how and why we contract diabetes, points out the ensuing health hazards, and explains how we can manage the condition through natural remedies, including enticing recipes for diabetes patients and their families.

Blood Sugar and Spice: Living with Diabetes is a comprehensive manual to help prevent, control, and cure diabetes usung naturopathy. If you or someone close to you has been diagnosed with diabetes, this book is meant for you.

Health is our greatest asset. Good health leads to success at work with increased efficiency and a great family life with prosperity and happiness. The more you have of good health, the more you have of these. Alarmingly, as employers, we see increasingly rising costs of healthcare of our employees, with increased susceptibility to heart disease, cancer, diabetes, obesity, chronic aches and pains, kidney ailments, and other such stress-related conditions with their adverse impact on overall staff welfare.

More than 24 years ago, I walked into my therapeutic dietetic board practical examination and pulled out a chit for my topic. My heart sank. My chit read 'Plan an 1800-calorie diet for a Type 2 diabetic patient with high blood pressure'. Even though I knew I would be able to do a good job, having pored over numerous calorie sheets and textbooks the previous night, the external examiner for this practical examination was Dr G.D. Koppikar, well known in the dietetic field as a meticulous taskmaster, someone who could scare even the most confident of dietetic students. More importantly, Dr Koppikar was the Chief Dietician of S.L. Raheja Hospital, Mumbai, which at that time was exclusively for diabetic patients. The diet planning and food preparation part of the practical went off well, or so I thought! I vividly remember the viva: Dr Koppikar at her sternest best peering at my diet sheet, at the meal I had prepared and grilling me for more than 20 minutes, which to me seemed like over two hours. I finished, cleared my stuff from the table, and left the room, sure that I had goofed up. An hour later she called for me once again; scary thoughts ran through my mind. My hands shook, my heart was beating out of my chest.

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