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Managed, ... to beat drug resistence!

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  Hello folks, I now come back to you with happier results. It has taken longer than I envisaged indeed but I managed to beat drug resistance and brought down my blood sugar levels. For those who are reading this blog for the first time, please do read my previous blogs on Diabetic Food blogs . I had shared with you all that my fasting blood sugars were 400 + and PPBS… was in the range of 463 although my three meals comprised of oats and plenty of vegetables! I took a huge risk and refused insulin on the doctors’ face. Now, after a long battle with diabetology drugs  by reducing my tablet intake to half of the minimum dosage available of glycomet - to about 125 mg (the minimum dosage of Glycomet available is 250 mg) I managed to bring down my FBS from 400 to 180.  My practise of yoga, Pranayama and cycling were certainly helpful in that, despite nasty blood sugar levels I fortunately did not suffer a stroke. But the diabetology drugs I was administered when my HBA1c level shot up t
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  By Malini Shankar Digital Discourse Foundation In the post Pandemic era that we are living in, COVID 19 survivors are facing the bleak prospect of aftereffects of steroids. These can include developing endocrine disorders like Diabetes Miletus, hypertension, cholesterol, chronic insomnia, debilitating mood swings and consequent mental health issues, weight gain, thickens blood, creates drug resistance, arthritis and rheumatism, hair loss, skin lesions, internal irritation, chronic itching, food allergies, loss of bladder and bowel control, and so on. That is why I write this in time for World Health Day 2023. If this scares the daylights out of you, take heart that each individual responds in a unique way… it could also well turn out that the exact opposite of what’s listed above might turn true… for example it could well be low blood sugars, or low blood pressure / hypotension etc can take grip in a person. It depends on a person’s body constitution. Now let me share my per
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Native nutrition to the aid of diabetics

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14 th November marks the observance of Diabetes Day. Diabetes has assumed epidemic proportions especially in the rice belt of the tropics with India accounting for one in three people being diabetic.   Diabetes Miletus is an endocrine disorder caused by inadequate insulin production in the body. Primary causes for the disorder are sedentary lifestyles, and unhealthy food consumption. Junk food, street food including unhygienically prepared fatty and oily foods refined flours, sugars, utterly devoid of vitamins, nutrition and essential minerals contribute to exacerbating the increasing rate of Diabetes in South Asia. “About 80 % of type 2 diabetes is preventable by changing diet, increasing physical activity” says Dr. H.B. Shivaleela Registered Dietician in Bangalore who retired as Food and Nutritionist from University of Agricultural Sciences in Bangalore. Uncontrolled diabetes can lead to serious complications like obesity, hypertension, cholesterol, chronic
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What is the point of bail after conviction that too in a wildlife crime? The black buck is an endangered wild animal listed under Schedule 1 of India's stringent Wildlife Protection Act of 1972. © Pixabay.  By Malini Shankar, Digital Discourse Foundation April 22 nd 2018 22 nd April every year is being marked as World Earth Day for the past two decades or so. Some would argue that it is another day for cynical lip service to causes like the Environment. The ground reality hardly ever changes despite the unparalleled reach and impact of electronic media that wires the entire world today. Indian actor Salman Khan was convicted on 4 th April 2018 for hunting and killing two black bucks back in 1998. But he secured bail barely 48 hours after conviction on 6 th April 2018. Conservationists fear that it sets a very bad precedent as it is a manifestation of the lack of political will for execution of the stringent provisions of the Wildlife Protection A
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