Although diabetes is an age old disease, but in recent times, because of man's busy life, pollution and lack of restrictions on eating habits, this disease is spreading fastly. Due to lack of physical work the number of diabetic patients in cities is much more than in the rural areas. However, majority of the people do not have enough knowledge about this complex disease. In this book, written in question-answer form, diabetes specialist, Dr. A.K. Jhingan, has given extensive information on the disease in simple and lucid language. The author has explained in detail how diabetes can be controlled through yoga, aasanas, praanaayam, walking, naturopathy, acupuncture, acupressure, etc. Besides guiding people suffering from diabetes to control it, emphasis has also been put on the preventions and the precautions to be taken.
The persons who are suffering from diabetes can acquire extensive knowledge about the disease through this book.

Dr. A.K. Jhingan, (b. 1949) M.B.B.S., M.D. Medicine, is working as Senior Consultant, Physician and Diabetologist in Jaipur Golden Hospital and a visiting Physician in Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, Delhi. He is also attached with State Bank of India as a Senior Physician and Medical Advisor. Dr. Jhingan started working in the field of Diabetes since 1983. Dr. Jhingan has been instrumental in organising Diabetes Detection and Educational Camps in and around Delhi. Till date more than 120 such camps have been organised. He is also the head of Delhi Diabetes Research Centre and Juvinile Diabetes Association of India. Besides writing articles on diabetes in various newspapers and magazines he has also authored several books on diabetes.