Jan 9th 2017
Stressors are another gateway to diabetes and surely messing with our health! While there are those that are short lived and inevitable, there are many more that we face on a daily basis that go unidentified. It’s easy to put the blame for rising blood sugar levels only on hectic work life or big transitions […]
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Oct 29th 2016
I have always been a Game Of Thrones fanatic. Like many others, I enjoy it and have my own set of favorite characters. Those who know nothing (sorry couldn’t help it), Game Of Thrones (GOT) is a series based on a set of books authored by George R.R. Martin. Unlike Harry Potter, this set of […]
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Oct 15th 2016
A to-be 6 year old girl to mother, ‘Mom, whats type 1 diabetes? Why do I have it? People say its a bad, dangerous thing that I have for life time ? I am scared, does it make me weak? Why did God give me problems when I am still small? Is this punishment to […]
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Oct 8th 2016
Mahatma Gandhi once said that strength does not come from physical capacity, it comes from an indomitable will. Being one of the only 2 out of 14 people to attempt to cycle up the Khardungla pass (highest motorable road in the world) inspite of having Type 1 Diabetes (T1), hence proved? PREFACE Once upon a […]
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Sep 30th 2016
Someone wise once said “Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.” In the past 500 years our society has been made dependent on superstitions in subjects like caste, food, race, and especially women (making them completely dependent on men, by denying them basic rights – a crime that took centuries […]
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Sep 17th 2016
Of the two deities, Ganesha and Shiva, who do you think has diabetes? Hazard a guess! Mythology suggests that Ganesha developed diabetes but was cured by a drug or treatment administered by Shiva appropriately named Shiv Gutika. If you search for Shiv Gutika on the interweb today you’ll run into generic and rather unfantastic suggestions […]
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Aug 19th 2016
Message from the author: Riddhi Ghoghari Furia Love to live life and celebrate each day like it was my first. I am Riddhi Furia, known as an explorer of things new and different. Being a mother of a 5 year old hunk and married for 10 years, I couldn’t have been any happier and guess […]
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Aug 19th 2016
Have you all already broken an umbrella or two? The word monsoon actually means season, after the Arabic word mausim – and what better symbol of transformation from one season to the next than the onset of monsoon rains over the lands scorched by the unrelenting heat of summer. Monsoons are caused by the difference […]
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Aug 5th 2016
If you are wondering what these abbreviations are, allow me. I am here comparing three blood glucose-monitoring systems; this is my take on the ones currently available in India and by no means is influenced or biased since I paid for all of them myself from my own hard earned money. 😉 Besides, I also […]
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Jul 19th 2016
Finding yourself unable to do something may be nothing more than a mental block, but not if you are a Type 1 diabetic, things do get out of hand. This is what most of us felt and understood. However Maitry Pancholi has proved it wrong. Being a type 1 diabetic since the age of 12, […]
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