Abolish Diabetes

Sprouted Cereals has always been one of the top foods to loose weight because they are rich in protein and fiber and above all they fill your stomach quite well.

Did you know that Sprouted Cereals is the best natural medicine to control excessive blood sugar too?

Try eating sprouted cereals three times a day and notice the miraculous effect in 7 days.

Making sprouts is very easy and inexpensive.

You can make sprouted cereals out of green gram, Chick Peas, Horse Gram and Fenugreek Seeds.

Quick Steps to Making Sprouts

1. Soak the desired cereal for 8 hours in water.
2. Drain the water using a drainer sieve and retain the drained cereal in the sieve overnight
3. Next day you notice the sprouted cereals.

Note: Some cereals like Chick Peas will take more time to sprout after draining of the water.

Preserving Spouted Cereals

As it is very easy to make sprouts, instead of soaking huge quantities at a time, small quantities of 250 gm can be soaked once in three days so that you do not fall short of sprouts any time.

Make sure you keep the sprouted cereals in an air tight container and keep it in the fridge.

I am sure you must be wondering how one can eat raw sprouted cereals all the time. I agree it is not palatable.

Steamed sprouted cereals taste better but not that great to have them as it is.

No worries…. I will post a variety of recipes using sprouted cereals.

Watch out the next few posts for recipes using Sprouted Green Gram.

Are you someone who is desperately trying to shed a few extra pounds or are you someone who is diabetic, taking insulin shots and under strong medication?

Are you bored of your diet or you do not know what to eat that will reduce your weight or control your sugar levels?

Are you sick of medication, fitness centers and weight reduction programs?

If yes, your problems end here.

An article in Foodconsumer.org states that Researchers have found that those who lived to age 90 or older were more likely to have not experienced diabetes, obesity and those who indeed lived to that age generally enjoyed better physical function, mental well-being and self-perceived health in late life compared to men who died at a younger age.

The article further states that maintaining a healthy lifestyle can help one fight any disease.

Mending your diet is the first step towards a healthy lifestyle and this is indeed challenging. Hectic work schedules, eating out too often, no exercise is the current lifestyle trends and it just messes up your food habits.

You do not want to compromise on tasty food. Do you?

You also do not want to spend a lot of time in the Fitness Centre and Weight Reduction Programs.

Well if that is the case, here is good news for you.

I will present you with the recipes of choicest and tastiest dishes developed by my wife Sharadha for a healthy living. Say good bye to restaurants, fast food, medicines and insulin today.

Have a healthy treat everyday!

All the recipes have been tested by me a diabetic, and by my daughter who wanted to shed extra weight . These food have proved to reduce body fat and excessive blood sugar within a short span of time.

If you want to reduce your weight or control your blood sugar levels instantly, try out all the healthy recipes that will be posted by me .

Generally treatment for diabetes is determined by Doctors based on:

• age, overall health, and medical history of the patient.

• the type of diabetes

• How long suffering from diabetes

• Any allergy/adverse reactions to specific or group of drugs.

• Person’s preference about medication/treatment.

Persons with Type 1 diabetes are required to take injection of insulin as their bodies no longer produce enough or no insulin.

For persons with Type 2 diabetics, a suitable combination of diet, exercise, and weight loss will enable them to keep away chronic diabetic complications and also problems of hyperglycemia or hypoglycemia. When a person is unable to modify the lifestyle and follow it, oral medication is prescribed. If oral medication also fails to manage the blood glucose level, then one has to proceed to insulin therapy.

The main aim of management of diabetes is to prevent complications in the long run. For this, the levels of glucose and insulin in the blood need to be kept normal without significant variation . Maintaining appropriate weight will greatly assist keeping normal level of glucose in the blood . A proper diet and regular exercise, is essential for maintaining appropriate weight.

Oral medications generally consists of the drugs of the following groups :

• sulfonylurea drugs

• biguanides

• alpha-glucosidase inhibitors

• meglitinides

• thiazolidinediones

All the above drugs are not without adverse side effects.

There are three major types of diabetes.

Type I diabetes

Type II diabetes

Gestational Diabetes

Type I diabetes:

Not very common. When the body is unable to produce insulin, the resultant diabetes is termed as Type I diabetes . This type occurs in Children and adults below 40 years of age. Persons suffering from Type I diabetes should be injected with insulin.

Type II diabetes :

This is the more common form of diabetes. Hereditary and the lifestyle are the major causes of type II diabetes. Type II diabetes develops over the period of several years and can be controlled with diet and/or medication. 90% of diabetics suffer from Type II diabetes. In Type II condition, the insulin produced in the body is not enough for the body functions or the insulin does not work properly. This is termed insulin resistance. Generally, persons over 40 years of age suffer from Type II diabetes.

Gestational Diabetes :

Gestational diabetes occurs in some women during pregnancy leading to complications during pregnancy, labour and delivery. Gestational diabetes may develop into type II diabetes in some cases.

Pre-Diabetes :

When the glucose level in the blood is above normal limits and is not enough for yielding results in a diabetes test, the condition is called Pre-Diabetes. By taking immediate precautionary measures for the control of blood sugar level, such person can prevent onset of type II diabetes.

Signs and symptoms of Diabetes:

Diabetes Type I :

Initial symptom in the form of nausea and vomiting and at a latter stage body starts breaking down muscle tissue and fat for energy resulting in rapid weight loss.

Diabetes Type II :

• Feeling of fatigue.
• Perpetual thirstiness.
• Frequent urination.
• High hunger level.
• Weight fluctuation.
• Blurry vision .
• Wide mood swinging.
• Skin infections.
• Prolonged wound healing.

Gestational diabetes

Generally, gestational diabetes may not cause any symptoms, however, the woman may experience excessive weight gain, excessive hunger or thirst, excessive urination or recurrent infections .

Cells in our body need energy to function. Primary energy source is simple sugar(glucose) obtained from the digestion of foods that contain carbohydrates. That glucose remain in the blood as an energy source for the cells. Insulin is a hormone produced by cells in the pancreas (located behind the stomach). Insulin is the key to open the doorway into the cell through which glucose can enter. Some of the glucose can be converted into stored energy reservoirs like glycogen or fatty acids for use in future . When there is a shortage of insulin produced or when the doorway no longer opens with the insulin key, glucose stays in the blood instead of entering the cells.

To balance the level of glucose , the body will immediately attempt to dilute the high level of glucose in the blood (medically the condition is termed as hyperglycemia) by obtaining water from the cells into the bloodstream in an effort to dilute the glucose and expel it in the urine. It is the reason for people with diabetes to feel thirsty and frequently drink large quantities of water, and urinate to get rid of the extra glucose. This creates high levels of glucose in the urine.

When the body is trying to get rid of glucose from the blood, the cells starve for glucose and compel the body to eat more food, thus making the person extremely hungry. To supply energy for the starving cells, the body also tries to convert fats and proteins to glucose. The conversion of fats and proteins for energy causes acid compounds called ketones to form in the blood. Ketones will also be excreted in the urine. As ketones build up in the blood, a condition called ketoacidosis can occur. This condition can be life threatening .

Research studies indicate that Indians are more prone for diabetes than almost any other population in the world. It was believed that the economically wealthy segment of the population alone suffered from diabetes and so there was no effort at any level to spread awareness about the disease among the population.

The economic boom in the country has increased the prosperity of many families. This in turn has accelerated the capacity to spend more on food. We have started to follow western dietary habits unsuited for our environs. Change in eating habits coupled with sedentary life style exposed us to psycho-social stress. This could be one of the reasons for an unprecedented rise of diabetes to epidemic proportions during last few decades in our country.

It is also reported that Indians tend to be diabetic at a relatively young age of 45 years which is about 10 years earlier than in West. The alarming information is that the life expectancy in a diabetic if it is not controlled is just about 13.5 years after the onset of the disease, as they succumb to kidney as well as heart disease more often than others.

According to an international research study, in 1995, India had 19.4 million adult diabetics and the same is projected to increase to 57.2 million by 2025.

There is an urgent need to publicise that we Indians are more prone for diabetes and that all the dietary regulations recommended in Western literature may not apply to Indian context. It is not just how much a diabetic eats, nor the amount of ’sugar’ one eats. Our understanding of diabetic diet needs to be drastically changed.

I was browsing different web sites trying to fix a list of food items that will enable me to abolish diabetes and at the same time keep me energetic. My neighbor Doctor couple asked me what do I eat and whether I am serious about abolishing diabetes by changing my palate . I jokingly told them that I am searching for “Amritham”( In Indian mythology it is said that the Asuras and Devas embarked on the task of churning the ocean to get “Amritham” or ambrosia. They wanted this nectar which confers immortality.) but will be happy if I get “Sanjivani”(Sanjeevani is a magical herb which has the power to cure any malady) and If both are not within my reach I can settle for Kayakalpam (The Siddha System. Speaks of a medicinal products called kayakalpam which I have heard has the power to make the body immune to all sorts of attack.). The Doctors said that if I am very serious I can have the concoction of all the three. Please see for yourself the concocted spread.

Do you know the composition? Egg, curd and then ? Phaseolus radiatus , Coccinia grandis, Abelmoschus esculentus, Lablab purpureus . Baffled ? Curious !. These are botanical name for Pasi Payaru in tamil (Moong in Hindi), Kovaikkai in tamil(kundaru in hindi), Vendaikkai in tamil (bhindi in hindi), Avarai(beans) in tamil(bhatavans in hindi) respectively. Sounds simple ? Yes it is very simple to abolish diabetes. The vegetable kingdom offers us a wide range of Sanjivani that can grant us a permanent respite from array of tablets and insulin shots.

The feeling of “Hope” is a common  occurrence among people of all nation and cultures. “Hope” is a part of most of the religious and spiritual teachings. In difficult times, the feeling of “Hope” is very helpful in tiding over the difficulty. Scientific studies reveal the positive impact of hope on people suffering from serious illness.

When I learnt that I am a diabetic, the first question I asked myself was “Can I hope to reverse the diabetic condition one day ?” The real life stories I have read of many people who have defied life threatening circumstances infused a hope in me that one day I too can defeat diabetes. I share some of them with you and will feel rewarded if these instances trigger hope in you too to abolish diabetes .

Stephen Hawking, the 65-year-old Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge University and a world renowned quantum physicist who has done ground-breaking work on cosmic black holes and the origins of the universe, became the first person with a disability to experience weightlessness in a zero-gravity inducing flight by the Florida based Zero Gravity Corp.

Prof. Hawking is severely disabled by amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS (a type of motor neurone disease); this condition is commonly known in the United States as Lou Gehrig’s Disease. Giving below the inspirational excerpts from his interview :

“I am quite often asked: How do you feel about having ALS? The answer is, not a lot. I try to lead as normal a life as possible, and not think about my condition, or regret the things it prevents me from doing, which are not that many. It was a great shock to me to discover that I had motor neurone disease.”

 ”The realisation that I had an incurable disease, that was likely to kill me in a few years, was a bit of a shock. How could something like that happen to me? Why should I be cut off like this? However, while I had been in hospital, I had seen a boy I vaguely knew die of leukemia, in the bed opposite me. It had not been a pretty sight. Clearly there were people who were worse off than me. At least my condition didn’t make me feel sick. Whenever I feel inclined to be sorry for myself I remember that boy.”

“But shortly after I came out of hospital, I dreamt that I was going to be executed. I suddenly realised that there were a lot of worthwhile things I could do if I were reprieved.”

 ”I have had motor neurone disease for practically all my adult life. Yet it has not prevented me from having a very attractive family, and being successful in my work.”

 Whenever I felt disgusted about the insulin shots and medication, I remembered  Prof. Hawking.

Here are some uplifting quotes that can be used  to blossom hope for abolishing diabetes :

“Nothing is worth more than this day.”-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe(German author )

“My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope.”

-Ovid, Roman poet

“Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of overcoming it.”

-Helen Keller, blind and deaf lecturer.

 ”No matter what happens, keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over again, and you will grow stronger until you find that you have accomplished a purpose-not the one you began with perhaps, but one you will be glad to remember.”  -Anne Sullivan, teacher of Helen Keller

 ”Frame your mind to mirth and merriment, which bar a thousand harms and lengthen life.”  -William Shakespeare, poet and playwright

You may have come across the Wheel of Life.

It is a very useful tool used in Life Coaching.

The wheel of cure is similar to that of Wheel Of Life. The Wheel of Cure has 5 spokes : Hope, Faith, Determination, knowledge, and Inspiration. More thorough we are with all aspect of cure, we get to see a round wheel. It also indicates how confident we feel too. If we are completely satisfied with every aspect in our step to abolish diabetes, then we will have a nice big, completely round wheel. When we see certain aspect is less well developed than others, We can devote some attention to match it with the others.

As the whole exercise involves ourselves only, we are in an advantageous situation to quickly control and abolish diabetes.

Hope :

We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope. — Martin Luther King, Jr.

Never talk defeat. Use words like hope, belief, faith, victory. — Norman Vincent Peale

Practice hope. As hopefulness becomes a habit, you can achieve a permanently happy spirit. — Norman Vincent Peale

Hope is always available to us. When we feel defeated, we need only take a deep breath and say, “Yes”, and hope will reappear.-Monroe Forester

We live by admiration, hope and love. - Williamwordsworth.

Diabetes is certainly a serious disease. But so is arthritis, Alzheimer, heart disease and cancer.

Chronic diseases are prolonged conditions that often has a profound effect on the physical, emotional and mental well-being of individuals. How ever, deterioration in health can be minimized and completely eradicated in some cases by good choices made on a daily basis. Every day, we make choices about the food we eat and our lifestyles. We can make healthy choices for healthy living every day.

The best choices are :

• Eating healthy foods
• Exercising regularly and staying active
• Preventing and reducing illness or disease

Healthy living and physical activity are beneficial at any age. We can act now for better health!

Sometimes we are better able to understand something from the direct experience of others, written in their own words. Each of such success stories narrates the actual experience of someone who has successfully defeated a chronic disease. Reading such stories provided by individuals who have first hand experience in dealing with chronic illness will help us to formulate a self management strategy for defeating diabetes .

First and foremost requirement is to have an open mind, it must be wide open to the contents of these pages . Then exercise your mind thoroughly to understand and feel the spirit behind our endeavor before plunging to abolish diabetes from you.

DeWayne McCulley in his book Death To Diabetes terms the effort to abolish diabetes as a wellness strategy integrating Body-Mind-Spirit. The Body, Mind and Spirit must work in harmony and balance for the entire being to be healthy. It is very true.

Our mind does not control the body but the body controls the mind. This happens because the mind is weak. Though our mind is unable control the body, it can play an important role in our handling the body. This will happen only when the mind is strong. Diabetes is a condition of the body and in many ways it controls our mind.

According to one teaching, there is no bad person, no crazy person; each person’s flaws are part of life, which is itself flawless. Each person’s struggles are a great mystery to be revealed, each struggle becomes a story, each story becomes teaching, each teaching becomes medicine, and such medicine makes the people whole and well in spirit.

Just like the 5 cosmic elements from which all in the universe are born and constituted, there are five elements to control the way we handle the body.

FAITH,HOPE,KNOWLEDGE,INSPIRATION and DETERMINATION. We can call the 5 together as “Wheel of Cure”.

These 5 ingredients together is a powerful engine that can bail us out from the crisis.