Does Milk Raise Blood Sugar?
“Doctor, one last question.” Every doctor knows those four words can add another ten minutes to a consultation. This gentleman had already collected his prescription,...
Category : Diabetes Care
Walk Daily, Doctor Said. He Did. And Lost His Toes.
He was the kind of man who kept a notebook. Rajaram Iyengar, sixty-three, retired BEML engineer, R T Nagar, Bangalore. Eleven years of diabetes, HbA1c...
Shock Rice! New Rice That May Lower Sugar Spikes
The moment I say, “Limit rice,” the room’s temperature changes. Not silence. No agreement. Reaction. I have seen calmer responses to tax notices. “Doctor, rice means life....
Why a Walk After Meals May Be the Most Underrated Health Habit?
A meal ends. The plate is rinsed. The chair moves back. And in that small domestic sound lies a metabolic decision most people do not...
Continuous Glucose Monitor: The Body’s Truth Serum
Continuous glucose monitoring entered Indian life the way CCTV cameras appeared in apartment complexes, not because everyone was guilty, but because no one fully trusted...
One Map. One Nation. Too Much Sugar.
A man barged into my clinic waving a map of India, and in that instant, I knew the country had finally found something sweeter than...
How India’s Love for Carbs is Fueling a Silent Diabetes Epidemic?
In the summer of 2002, the town of Bellary shimmered like a brass pot on the stove. I sat in the consulting room of Dr...
Sleep and Diabetes: The Forgotten Pill That Balances Your Blood Sugar
In India, we take our sugar seriously. We monitor it more religiously than our retirement funds, and we blame it for everything—from fatigue to bad...
Why Most Diabetes Diets Fail at Home: The Family Kitchen Effect
He walked into my clinic looking like his blood sugar had attended a wedding he wasn’t invited to—exhausted, overfed, and defeated by a house where...
For Diabetics, New Research Challenges Frequent Meal Advice
You’ve heard it before: “Eat small meals every few hours to stabilise your blood sugar.” Well-meaning doctors and nutritionists repeat this mantra to their diabetic...