As the world celebrates this year's
World Health Day with the theme 'Beat Diabetes', every Indian should know about
diabetes because the number of people with diabetes in India has risen from
11.9 million in 1980 to 64.5 million in 2014.
According to the Lancet study, China,
India and US are among the top three countries with a high number of diabetic
population. There is a fourfold rise in the number of diabetics – from 108
million in 1980 to 422 million in 2014 in the globe and half of them live in
India, China, USA, Brazil and Indonesia.
Diabetes
is caused mainly from unhealthy eating habits, stress and lack of physical
activity. The two common forms of diabetes are type 1 and type 2. Type 1 is not
preventable while the latter one can often be avoided. But one can reduce the
risk of getting diabetes by following a healthy lifestyle and proper food habits.
As
part of its World Health Day celebration, TMN has prepared a list of best foods
to beat diabetes.
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