Diet and lifestyle in Diabetes mellitus

Diabetes is a lifestyle disorder where pancreas fail to produce enough insulin or our body cannot effectively use the available insulin(insulin is the hormone that regulates blood glucose levels).

people with diabetes have a higher risk of other health issues like heart failure, kidney failure, stroke, loss of vision, nerve damage , delayed wound healing.
By following proper diet and lifestyle, diabetes and its complications can be avoided.

Diet and lifestyle to follow in diabetes
✓ Grains and millets like Rice, barley, wheat, greengram, horse gram, Bengal gram, kodo millet which are harvested a year ago.
✓ vegetables like bittergourd, ridge gourd, drumstick, garlic, turmeric, radish, raw banana, pointed gourd, Fenugreek leaves, tinospora leaves and vegetables which are bitter in taste.
✓ Fruits like Jamun, Amla and other fruits in limits.
✓ Meat of sheep and goat.
✓ Butter milk with water
✓ Yogasanas- Padahasthasana, Setubhandasana, Vakrasana, Arshamatsyendrasana, Vajrasana, Paschimottanasana, Halasana.
✓ Physical activity, exercise, walking.

Diet and lifestyle to avoid
✓ Freshly harvested grains, black gram, maida and it's products.
✓ Vegetables like potato, carrot, and beetroot.
✓ Sugar and jaggery.
✓ Milk and milk products except buttermilk.
✓ Meat of aquatic animals like fish.
✓ Fruit juices and sugarcane juice .
✓ Sedentary lifestyle.
✓ Alcohol and smoking.
✓ Day sleep.