Health and Nutrition

Disclaimer: The information in this article is for educational purposes only and is not intended as medical advice. Always consult your healthcare provider before making any changes to your diabetes management plan or before starting any new supplement.   Let us have discussion about food not just as a fuel, but as a medicine. This concept is becoming very interesting not only for me but also for the others who are living in this world with type 2 diabetes . We already know a standard answer from most of the nutritionists i.e. watch the carbs, take exercise, monitor blood sugar and maintain healthy diet. But in my own journey with diabetes, I’ve become fascinated by a more subtle question that science is just beginning to answer loudly:  How is our food an important factor for our metabolic health ? Right now, the discussion is not just choosing broccoli over a bag of chips but the talk of the day is about choosing  organic  broccoli. These days we all are striving...

Ginger for Diabetes : Can This Golden Root Help Manage Your Blood Sugar? Let's have a real and fruitful conversation about managing type 2 diabetes . Many of us are on this journey and often feel like a constant balancing act between medication, diet, and lifestyle. In our collective and active search for such tools that work in complete harmony with our bodies, we most of the times find very powerful as well as effective and significant allies in the most ancient and the most common places like our very own kitchen and grocery store. Today, we are going to discuss about a knobbly, pungent, and glorious root, which is known as ginger. In this blog we are going to pave the way of our topic on the following stated as under: §   A Pinch of Science: What Research Suggests §   Weaving Ginger into the Tapestry of Our Daily Lives §   A Necessary Dose of Reality: Our Cautions and Considerations §   The Human Takeaway: Flavor, Connection, and Empowerment     ...

While managing the blood sugar through diet seems to be a culinary strait-jacket. When we receive a pre-diabetes or Type 2 diabetes diagnosis, we have to first scarify our comfort foods i.e. the pastas, the breads , the sugary sauces and the sodas . It’s easy for us to feel that the future of ours is filled with vegetables and plain grilled chicken without any additional cheeses or butter with them. Thus, we start feeling quite shocked and alien in the world we are now a victim of diabetes. But eating for controlling the blood sugar does not mean to sacrifice the flavor and taste of our own choice. In fact, some of the most powerful tools for our health are present right in our spice rack . Here, we have a wonderful and amazing but a very miraculous super-food named as ‘ GARLIC .’ It is one of the secret weapons for those who are willing to stabilize and monitor the intake of carbohydrates and glucose levels.  It adds immense depth and savory punch to meals without add...