Watch What We Eat: Avoid the Sugar Trap

Abstract

Oh no! What am I going to eat now? This is a common reaction when we learn we have diabetes. Yet, eating right for diabetes is not difficult as we think. Diabetes is a metabolic disorder characterised by decreased ability or total inability of the tissues to utilize carbohydrates (glucose). The disorder is due to the absence of insulin, its deficiency or ineffectiveness. In the moderate and severe cases of long duration it is associated with the abnormality of the body organs such as heart, kidney, brain, eyes and even nervous system. Excess food, lack of exercise, familial tendency, stress, infections, imbalance of hormones in the body, some diseases of pancreas, all these factors are responsible for diabetes. Symptoms of diabetes are poly urea, poly phagia, poly dipsea, loss of weight in spite of eating a lot, blurring of vision, lack of energy, delay in wound healing and a tingling sensation in hand and feet. Diabetes can lead a normal and healthy life if there is a good synchronization between diet, drugs and physical activity.