ahmedabad the theme of word diabetes day2015 on saturday has been rightly set as healthy living as diabetologists believe diabetics can get rid of insulin shots and reduce medication if they follow a healthy lifestyle doctors say patients suffering from diabetes need not put restrictions on themselves if they have frequent meals and a minimum of 30 minutes of workout every day yoga and walking are most preferable as they can be done by people of all ages and classes if the diabetics follow a healthy lifestyle 30 of them can be off treatment or can live with minimal treatment while 70 of those who follow a healthy lifestyle can see their medications reduced by 30 to 40 dr mayur patel a citybased diabetologist says patel spells out a fivepoint mantra to avoid diabetes avoid highcalorie food take frequent meals have 30 minutes of exer cise in which yoga and walking are more preferable every day reduce weight and have a stressfree lifestyle he beat diabetes and handicap with yoga tarak patel 40 a ricefactory owner from jetalpur villa ge of bareja taluka in ahmedabad is an source of inspiration for other diabetics he is partially handicapped below the waist after he became a victim of paralysis at the age of three patel was diagnosed with diabetes two years ago at that time his aftermeal blood sugar level was 280 and fasting blood sugar was 135 he took diabetes as a challenge and started practicing yoga and pranayama for around one hour each day he recalls the first two months when he used to take insulin shots every day but after practicing yoga even his oral medicine dosage has been reduced for the last six months his blood sugar levels remain around 130 after food and 110 before meals he has reduced his we ight by 8kg from 64 to 58 kg and he now also teaches others yoga divide meals and conquer sugar pathik neol 24 who works for an insurance company and lives in kalol town of gandhinagar was diagnosed with diabetes in july this year his blood sugar level then was 480 when fasting and 560 after a meal but with onehour of exercise every day which included walking and yoga he reduced his blood sugar count to 80 before meals and 120 after neol says he started taking frequent meals according to his doctors advice instead of ha ving heavy food twice a day my doctor advised me to reduce cut donw on my meals and take them every three hours he says goodbye to insulin with suryanamaskar rashmin patel 38 a building materials supplier from bareja town near ahmedabad was diagnosed with diabetes three years ago at that time his blood sugar count was 400 and 580 before and after meals respectively which led to a situation where was in a coma for 12 days after taking insulin shots for six months he turned to daily exercise i swear by 12 surya namaskars every day