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• Title: New Vistas in Treating Diabetes--Insight Into a Holistic Approach (Commentary) (Report)
• Author : Bindu M. Raju, T.R. Kutty
• Release Date : January 01, 2010
• Genre: Life Sciences,Books,Science & Nature,Health, Mind & Body,Health & Fitness,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 66 KB

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Diabetes mellitus (DM) is the single most important metabolic disorder that affects nearly every organ system in the body. Diabetes is escalating as an epidemic with the emergence of type 2 diabetes in children and young people. In India, presently about 30 million people are diabetic which will rise to about 60 million by 2017. Much more alarming is the growing incidences of gestational diabetes in our country, of which 60 per cent are known to develop diabetes later in life. These statistics are of great public health concern, because people with diabetes are 25 times more likely to develop blindness, 17 times more likely to develop kidney disease, 30-40 times more likely to undergo amputation, two to four times more likely to develop myocardial infarction and twice as likely to suffer a stroke than non-diabetics. Increasing per capita income, socio-economic status, life expectancy and urbanization are the signs of growth and development but the associated changes in lifestyle, dietary habits, sedentary habits and mental turbulent states contribute more to diabetes and its complications. The added burden of declining cognitive capabilities is still making a huge toll on the human resource utilization. The present day life style contributes to the alarming rise in the occurrence of this disease. Lifestyle modifications inclusive of dietary modification, regular physical activity and weight reduction are indicated for prevention of diabetes. Accordingly, a holistic health care approach (instead of a conventional drug-based approach alone) for the treatment is highly warranted; development of a mind body medicine or an inclusive approach of mind-body interactions is the need of the hour. An array of mind-body therapies are being used presently as adjuncts to conventional treatment for a number of common clinical conditions such as asthma, post traumatic stress disorder, addiction treatment, stress management anxiety, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) and various cardiovascular dysfunctions (1).

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