We’re a truly diabetic nation.
Our diets have become muted metabolic time bombs, we are the biggest consumers of sugar in the world. Top that with record sales of mithai and namkeens in the name of festive indulgence and you get 65 million diabetes and the crown of being the diabetes capital of the world.
It’s a huge epidemic.
There are two types of diabetes. Though both involve the body’s inability to process sugar and glucose, they are very different. Type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune disease in which the body can not secrete insulin. Only 10 per cent diabetes cases are of type 1, which is usually diagnosed during childhood or adolescence and managed through daily insulin shots.
Type 2 diabetes, on the other hand, is a sneaky monster. Here the body produces insulin but can’t process it properly. The early warning signs are hard to spot and sometimes people brush it off as stress and fatigue.
Here are five warning signs for when to get tested: