How to turn your life around and get healthier. The good thing is, it’s never too late, say experts
- Singapore finance professional Prempal Hundal was diagnosed with pre-diabetes
- He started exercising and watching his diet and is no longer pre-diabetic
It’s never too late to turn your health around. Just ask Prempal Hundal, who was told in 2014 that he had pre-diabetes. He says the diagnosis was the wake-up call he needed to take control of his health – or face dire consequences when he was older.
“My wife, who’s a doctor, told me that I had to make certain lifestyle changes to move out of that pre-diabetic range,” says Hundal, a Singapore-based finance professional.
“She was blunt, warning me that unless I did something right away, I might have to spend the rest of my life as a diabetic, getting my blood sugar level tested daily and possibly having to inject myself with insulin on a regular basis. I also feared long-term complications associated with diabetes, such as vision loss, nerve damage, and infections leading to amputations.”
Hundal, who weighed 110kg (242 pounds) at the time, began making big changes to his diet. He minimised his intake of processed foods, beer and rich, sugary desserts, ditched regular white rice for basmati rice, which has a lower glycaemic index, and ate grilled or baked – rather than fried – foods.
He also started drinking unsweetened green tea, which is known to have numerous health benefits.
