Former national cricket team player, Sultan of Swing Wasim Akram has said that after being diagnosed with diabetes, he faced a lot of problems, including depression and anxiety.
In a recent interview, Wasim Akram talked about being diagnosed with diabetes and changing his lifestyle.
Meanwhile, he also expressed concern about the lifestyle of the young generation of Pakistan suffering from type 2 diabetes.
Wasim Akram said that he was diagnosed with diabetes in 1997, this news had a terrible effect on him as he was only 29 years old at that time. On hearing about Sugar, he became very upset and it took him about six weeks to get out of this depressed state.
He said that after being diagnosed with diabetes, I thought that life is over now, what will happen to my family, wife and children.
He said that every night I used to crave biryani, naan, kulcha and nihari but I used to avoid it and still control myself.
Criticizing the younger generation’s eating habits, big faces and protruding lips, he said that he had made a lot of changes in his diet and routine after being diagnosed with diabetes.
Waseem said that eliminating chicken and carbs from your diet is the biggest win.
Meanwhile, he narrated an interesting incident and said that it is very important to have information related to sugar.
He was asked a question by a foreign player that do you have diabetes because you eat a lot of sweets?
Waseem Akram said that it is very important for the diabetic patient and his family to know that type 2 diabetes is not caused by sweet food but by an unbalanced lifestyle.
Meanwhile, talking about his inappropriate lifestyle, he further said that if I talk about my classmates today, it seems that they are my ‘grandfathers’.
It should be remembered that Wasim Akram is suffering from diabetes for the last 26 years.
He had previously told in an interview that he walks and runs 8 km daily, his diet consists of healthy ingredients, including vegetables and fruits, and he is used to sleeping early and waking up early.
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