| Fast paced life of modern world has necessitated us | | | | should be given up. |
| to give only lower priority to nutrition. This is at a time | | | | Ayurveda recommends Ayurvedic herbal tea for |
| when nutrition awareness of everyone is high. Instead | | | | diabetic patients. Replace sugar with honey or jaggery |
| of taking well cooked food items, fruits and juices, | | | | (thickened molasses - sarkkara) or better still palm |
| people go after carbonated drinks, fast 'junk' food, | | | | jaggery (thickened palm molasses - karippatti). |
| frozen and preserved food, microwave food. People | | | | The advantages or drinking more than eight glass of |
| also don’t take the time to enjoy and appreciate | | | | water everyday is not easily told in an essay. Drink a |
| the food they eat. Today most of us just need any | | | | minimum of 8-15 glass of water in the day time. After |
| food that fills the belly for sometime. | | | | sunset take only minimal quantities of water. Another |
| This food habits have given rise to a variety of health | | | | thing is to drink plenty of water an hour before a meal |
| problems. Significantly important one among them is | | | | and an hour after the meals. Drinking water close to |
| diabetes. | | | | meals dilute the digestive fire (in Ayurveda it is called |
| Ayurvedic principles tell us food is one important | | | | pitta) and makes the process of digestion difficult. |
| element that keeps a person in a balanced state of | | | | Take fruits like grapes, fig, pomegranate, citrus fruits |
| body, mind and soul. Taking healthy food translates into | | | | etc. Bitter melon (bitter gourd, karela) is used as |
| healthy body. | | | | medicine for diabetes. |
| Ayurvedic view on diabetes is no different. There are | | | | The point about Ayurvedic management of diabetes is |
| times when diabetes can attack without any warning | | | | never a hard task. All you will have to do is to |
| sign. Ayurvedic food style combined with certain herbal | | | | incorporate Ayurvedic principles as your daily routine. |
| applications helps one effectively manage his or her | | | | Having healthy food and exercise regime itself can |
| condition of diabetes. | | | | help one control his or her diabetes to a great extent. |
| High sugar level is the most dreaded thing about | | | | Include turmeric and garlic as spices, bitter gourd as |
| diabetes. Ayurveda recommends food items that don't | | | | vegetable, triphala as a laxative and drinking lot of |
| release excess sugar into the blood. Food items that | | | | water as daily habit. These are not very difficult to |
| are too sweet, ice cream, chocolate, friend food items, | | | | follow. You can't eat or drink all the food items you |
| white flour, preserved food, fast food, junk food etc | | | | have. But living a sweeter life sometimes means giving |
| are to be avoided. Bad habits like smoking and drinking | | | | up some sweet for tongue food items. |