When your wellness is affected by diabetes, you need to take several daily decisions to manage your blood glucose levels the best you can. However, as you can’t have a doctor watching out for your wellbeing every day, you need to learn about the disease and manage it yourself. This is where The illustrated guide to living with diabetes in India comes in; a comprehensive, reliable self-management guide for people with diabetes which will launch in India soon.
Authored by The Living with Diabetes in India (LWDI) Community – the world’s largest and most trusted online community of diabetics, caregivers and healthcare professionals supporting diabetics in India – the book serves as a practical guide to help you self-manage diabetes, providing reliable information and useful advice. Based on the most accurate and trustworthy medical information worldwide, the guide is a culmination of a year’s worth of work from by a team of medical writers, artists and diabetologists.
According to Praful Akali, the editor of the book, founder-member of the LWDI community, an IIM alumnus and head of one of the leading medical communications agencies in the country, ‘We were surprised to learn that there is no single source of practical yet reliable information for people with diabetes to better manage their condition. Based on the latest peer-reviewed scientific information and with inputs from the country’s leading doctors, nutritionists, counsellors and fellow diabetics, the book promises to marry scientific credibility with practicality.’
Now available for pre-order on www.flipkart.com, the book is co-published in India by leading book publishers, Popular Prakashan, whose CEO, Manish Purohit, commented, ‘As a publisher, we have seen many books that claim to educate people on various health issues. However, this book is unique in its engaging content and in bringing together the reliable information in such simple language. We are happy with our partnered association with a book of this genre and to lend our support to the cause of patient education for diabetes management.’
Dr. Debasis Basu, medical coordinator, LWDI added, ‘As genetics and lifestyle have conspired heavily to inflict an epidemic of diabetes in our subcontinent with approximately 67 million people affected with diabetes in India in 2013, we need to focus our attention on changing our lifestyles to manage the disease. This guide will help you believe that if good and right care is taken, even with diabetes, you are the master of your own life.’
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