Consequences of unmanaged blood sugar levels in diabetes patients could be disastrous and the disease can silently affect nearly all your organs causing the most debilitating and life-threatening illnesses. However, keeping your sugar levels in control can offset many of these risks and help you lead a healthy and long life. (Also read: Best and worst breakfast choices for people with diabetes)
Apart from diabetes medication, tweaking your lifestyle a bit and steering it in a healthy direction could help you manage your sugar levels effectively. A sedentary lifestyle must be avoided at all costs apart from the unhealthy snacks that one eats mindlessly. Eating dinner early and hitting the bed on time are among the factors that could work wonders for your glucose levels.
Dr Dixa Bhavsar in her recent Instagram post talks about some home remedies that could help one manage blood sugar levels in just 15 days.
* Amla, turmeric, lauki-moringa soup
The Ayurveda expert says having amla and turmeric daily could help diabetes patients. She also advises drinking lauki-moringa soup on alternate days or twice a week for breakfast or dinner.
* Limit deep fried food, sugar, replace your flour
Dr Bhavsar suggests limiting sugar, curd, deep fried food, fermented food and white flour. Besan, ragi and jowar flour in meals can be healthy additions or substitutes.
* Sit in Vajrasana post meals to manage your blood sugar levels.