Lifestyle and diet, key to control diabetes
Dr. V. Lakshminarayan, MBBS, MD, Mysore University, Graduate Diplomate in Diabetes Care, Newcastle University Australia
World Diabetes Day, the largest diabetes awareness campaign reaching a global audience of over 1 billion people in over 160 countries, is observed every year on Nov. 14. On this occasion, let us remember Sir Frederick Banting, who with the help of J.J.R. Macleod, Charles Herbert Best and James Collip, discovered insulin and whose birthday is celebrated as World Diabetes Day today.
The years 1921-22 marked a momentous period in the history of diabetes. Frederick Banting, a Canadian doctor and scientist, became deeply interested in diabetes and began work on trying to isolate insulin from the pancreas in the lab of J.J.R. Macleod, Professor of Physiology at the University of Toronto.
There has been a lot of hype around “Cure” and “Reversal” in Type2 Diabetes Mellitus (T2DM). It has become a marketing strategy with all sorts of “Unscientific Apps” and “Pseudoscience” claiming it to be possible, even in people living with Type 1 Diabetes (Juvenile Diabetes) which are unrealistic. It should be re-emphasised that the reversal claims made by “pseudo-science” preachers and unscientific applications for their personal gains are to be rejected. It is high time we enlighten the society to understand the reality and follow the correct path.
In simple words, Reversal means that the disease is completely cured and will not return. Remission means that the disease would be dormant as long as the patients maintain certain conditions.
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