Diabetes is a metabolic disorder in which a person has high blood sugar levels. The disease is of many types, such as:

• Type l: This is when the body is unable to produce insulin due to genetic conditions and patients need injections of artificial insulin. The disease could manifest in childhood.
  
• Type ll: When insulin is not absorbed properly by the cells due to changes in cell structure.
  
• Gestational: When blood sugar rises in pregnancy and after delivery.

Only Type ll diabetes is a lifestyle disorder.

Symptoms:
These manifest as increased appetite, thirst and frequency of urine. If sugar levels are not controlled, it could lead to general tiredness, changes in vision, smelly urine and severe weight loss. Type ll diabetes is a result of bad lifestyle like smoking, alcohol, lack of exercise, increased stress, and eating high-calorie food.

Sugar levels:
Desired blood sugar levels should be between 70 mg/dl -110 mg/dl at fasting and less than 140 mg/dl after meals. If blood sugar is less than 70 mg/dl (fasting), the condition is hypoglycemia and if more than 110 mg /dl (fasting) or 140mg/dl (after meals), it’s hyperglycemia or diabetes.

Suggested lifestyle changes like de-stressing through yoga, aerobics, walking and other exercise are recommended. Eat healthy food, avoid sugar and cut down on oily food. Add foods like garlic, lemon, onions, cinnamon, kabuli channa, rajma and olive oil to your diet and avoid smoking and alcohol to reduce sugar levels.

Homoeopathic medicines

• Abroma agusta if you complain of profuse and frequent urination, day and night, dryness of the mouth and thirst or a desire to drink water after urination;  fishy odour from urine
  
  
• Cephalandra Indica is recommended for those who suffer from weakness and exhaustion after urination and complain of dryness of throat
  
  
• Uranium Nitricum if you complain of copious urination, urine incontinence, burning in urethra, have very acidic urine or if you are unable to retain urine without pain
  
  
• Syzygium Jambolanum is good if you suffer from great thirst, weakness, emaciation, besides passing large amounts of urine, with a high specific gravity; have diabetic ulcerations and prickly heat in the upper body