Food for Diabetes: A Novel

"You are not dying. But you are, at this moment, blind - and that is a thing that can be cured." The day Meera Deshpande is told her sugar is high, her world narrows to a single terrifying word. That night the internet tells her she will lose her eyes, her feet, her festivals. And the next afternoon she finds a note in her handbag, in careful old-fashioned handwriting, from a stranger who seems to know things about her that nobody could know. So begins the strangest lesson of her life. Note by note, an unseen teacher takes apart everything she thought she knew about food - rice and roti, fibre and fat, the sugar hiding in plain sight on supermarket shelves - while inside her own home, a smiling man with a miracle powder is selling her family a "cure" that could kill the person she loves most. A suspense story wrapped around real science, Food for Diabetes does for the world's fastest-growing disease what Sophie's World did for philosophy: it hides the knowledge inside a story you cannot put down. By the last page you will know how to read a plate, a label, and a blood report - and why no one should ever stop a prescribed medicine on a stranger's word. Written by two pharmacists and professors of pharmacy. Every fact checked. Not a substitute for your doctor - and the story itself shows you why that warning matters.