10 Things you should know about Diabetes Mellitus. Dr Gitesh Kalyankar Obesity & Diabetes Clinic Prana- Homoeopathy Yoga Centre

Diabetes is a Silent Epidemic

According to World Health Organization there are 246 million people in the world living with diabetes. This is almost 6% of the world's adult population.

About one third of all people with diabetes do not know they have the disease.

India is the diabetes capital of the world India is the diabetes capital of the world. (currently there are 40 million people with diabetes in India) and by 2025 this number will swell to 70 million.

Diabetes causes 6 deaths every minute and one in 20 deaths in the world is due to the condition. Every year it is estimated that3.2 million people in the world die due to the diabetes or its related causes.

The commonest early symptom of diabetes is feeling thirsty

Almost90 to 95% of diabetes is of type 2or maturity onset type; that affects people in their middle age. Type 1 or juvenile diabetes affects 70,000 children under the age of 15 years every year.

The major cause of increase in the incidence of diabetes is a sedentary lifestyle. Exercise and diet can either reduce or delay the incidence of diabetes by over 50%.

Yoga helps to reduce stress and thus keeps blood sugar under control.

Homoeopathy can cure diabetes at least in its early stages Homoeopathy can cure diabetes at least in its early stages. In later stages it controls the sugar plus avoids complications and keeps you symptom free without any side-effects.