In a major move to fight the rising diabetes in the country, the Indian government inked an agreement with a Hyderabad-based firm to develop medicine to control diabetes. According to the agreement, software will be developed to keep tab on diabetics and those in danger of this lifestyle disease.
The Memorandum of Agreement (MoA) was inked between the government’s Drug Discovery Research Centre (DDRC) and Revelations Biotech Pvt. Ltd. (RBPL) of Hyderabad in the presence of Union Minister of State for Science and Technology Y.S. Chowdary.
“Sadly India stands out as the diabetic capital of the world and the continuing increase in incidence of this disease is a cause of serious concern. Diabetes is a gateway to a host of other diseases and hence needs to be checked on its very onset,” Chowdary said.
Diabetes is a gateway to a host of other diseases and hence needs to be checked on its very onset. Click To Tweet He added: “If we spend Rs.100 for the prevention of a disease then we save around Rs.400 which would otherwise be spent on the curation process.”Department of Bio-technology, Secretary, K. Vijay Raghavan said that “a data based software package will not only identify individuals who are becoming susceptible to diabetes but also predict the future course of disease in those who are already diabetic.”
“It is hoped that the advance warning provided by such a system will allow the target individuals to preemptively make appropriate lifestyle alterations so as to mitigate the disease onset and prevent its progression,” he said.
He added that the next thing is to manufacture a new medicine that will thwart re-absorption of glucose in the kidneys.
“This re-absorption process contributes to maintain high glycemic levels in diabetics. Inhibition of this process by an effective drug will lead to a significant lowering of blood glucose levels,” he said. The glycemic is a dedicated index which indicates a food’s effect on a person’s blood sugar level.
5 Tips to Control Diabetes
- Get your sugar levels regularly checked
- Count your carbs
- Consider exercise as medicine
- Make a diabetes meal plan
- Eat food that contains more fiber
India is called the diabetes capital of the world with as many as 50 million people suffering from type-2 diabetes.
News source: IANS
Hi Sonal,
It is so unfortunate that so many people are diabetic. When it comes to food, I do believe we need to figure out the nature of it. Here in the U.S. we don’t have labelling. So many foods are GMO. Although we have been fighting this cause for many years, we still don’t know where our food is grown. The GMO factor has a lot to do with the consistency of food. OK…I will stop ranting….
But having a good wellness lifestyle is so important not only for someone that is diabetic, but for all dis -ease -ments…
-Donna
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Hi Donna
You are absolutely right. Wellness style is very important for everyone.
all of us together should try to fight diabetes. Its great that government is taking some measures to combat diabetes. I hope something positive turns out.
Thanks for writing in
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Hi Sonal,
it is a good sign that the Indian government supports preventing diabetes .
I know about a very good movement in India . It is the more and more processed food
people consuming there and the subsidised rice , I south India Tamil Nadu and the University
of Chennai started to support farmers ,many of them women who plant the ancient
Millet (Bajra) and there are many other kinds of millet, which was before the green revolution and the bad water management the main food. Even here and in Europe people starting using it more and more again. Even the University of Berkely published a study about. My friend Radha Natarajan, Priya Shiva and many other women are publishing beautiful recipes with Millet.The Famous Vandana Shiva from Navdanya is talking a long time about this and even did write books. I too did write a book about Millet,not yet published 🙂 ,but will do soon ,because I see it is getting more and more popular here as well.
I hoped to get Vandana Shiva to write something for it and did visit her office in Delhi,but did not get an answer yet. It is one of the best foods for vegan and vegetarian to get enough protein regulate the blood sugar and keep the right weight. Happy to hear and you did write about the Government want to help and I hope instead of developing software they support the farmers.
Thank you
Erika
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Hi Erika mam
Thanks for your wonderful feedback.
This is the great movement about which you have shared. Its really glad to know that you are involved in it. am sure your book will be soon published and it will be a great one. Don’t forget my copy 🙂
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