201 Tips for Diabetes Patients by Dr. Bimal Chhajer Diabetes is a very common illness in the modern times. The number of diabetes patients is rapidly growing all over the world including India. It is a chronic disease and a slow killer—killing people by damaging the kidney, causing heart disease, coma or by gangrene formation. With no permanent remedy of site — there is a silver lining. This disease can be completely controlled by lifestyle management, education and changes in diet habits. In advanced cases allopathic as well as ayurvedic drugs and insulin, in combination of lifestyle changes, can keep the diabetic patient completely healthy.