{"id":910,"date":"2017-07-14T16:05:40","date_gmt":"2017-07-14T20:05:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.podiatrycanada.org\/?p=910"},"modified":"2017-07-14T16:05:40","modified_gmt":"2017-07-14T20:05:40","slug":"birdseed-turned-superfood-may-help-curb-indias-diabetes-scourge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cpma.thedev.ca\/?p=910","title":{"rendered":"Birdseed Turned Superfood May Help Curb India\u2019s Diabetes Scourge"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_911\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-911\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-911\" src=\"https:\/\/www.podiatrycanada.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/vinaya-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cpma.thedev.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/vinaya-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cpma.thedev.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/vinaya-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cpma.thedev.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/vinaya.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-911\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vinaya A.S. with patients at a mobile clinic on the outskirts of Bengaluru<br \/>Photographer: Dhiraj Singh\/Bloomberg<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>From the bloomberg news article:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Podiatrist Vinaya A.S. has bumped across southern India in a bus-turned mobile clinic for 17 years, going village to village checking feet for the ulcer-causing effects of diabetes. These days, her key to staving off limb amputations comes down to one thing: food.<\/p>\n<p>Millets, to be precise. The ancient grains were a staple in India for thousands of years, but largely spurned since a so-called Green Revolution last century led to cheaper, more abundant supplies of refined rice and wheat flour that can bolster blood-sugar. Now a surge in type-2 diabetes is pushing doctors and government officials to recommend a return to wholegrains, like \u201cragi\u201d or finger millet, that healthfully sustained previous generations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFood is your medicine \u2014 you need to eat right,\u201d Vinaya, 48, told a group of villagers in Doddaballapur, on the outskirts of Bangalore, last month. \u201cBring the fiber-rich ragi back to your plates, along with fruits and vegetables.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read more at the link:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2017-06-21\/birdseed-turned-superfood-may-help-curb-india-s-diabetes-scourge\">https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2017-06-21\/birdseed-turned-superfood-may-help-curb-india-s-diabetes-scourge<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the bloomberg news article: Podiatrist Vinaya A.S. has bumped across southern India in a bus-turned mobile clinic for 17 years, going village to village checking feet for the ulcer-causing effects of diabetes. These days, her key to staving off limb amputations comes down to one thing: food. Millets, to be precise. The ancient grains were a staple in India &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":911,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[29,39,53,85],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpma.thedev.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/910"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpma.thedev.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpma.thedev.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpma.thedev.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpma.thedev.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cpma.thedev.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/910\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpma.thedev.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpma.thedev.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpma.thedev.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpma.thedev.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}