The impact of rapidly changing lifestyle and eating habits in India is now clearly visible on health. The recently released Health of the Nation (HoN) 2026 survey report of Apollo Hospitals has shockingly revealed that a large part of the working population is vulnerable to sugar-related problems. According to the report, about 5 out of every 10 working people have either prediabetes or diabetes, which can become a serious threat in the future. This figure indicates that silent diseases are increasing rapidly in the country and people are unknowingly becoming victims of it.
The special thing is that a large number of people are not aware of their increasing sugar level, because the initial symptoms are very mild or are ignored. If ignored for a long time, this problem can lead to heart disease. kidney And can cause serious eye related diseases. This is the reason why this problem is no longer limited only to the elderly, but is increasing rapidly among the youth and people who sit and work in offices for long hours. The increasing cases also show that lack of regular testing and negligence is further increasing this danger. Let us know what are the reasons behind this.
Lifestyle became the biggest reason
In today’s busy life, people’s daily routine has completely changed. Working sitting at one place for hours, lack of physical activity and excessive consumption of junk food are playing the biggest role in increasing this problem. Due to office work, screen time and stressful life, people are neither able to eat food at the right time nor do exercise.
Apart from this, sweet things, processed food and outside food increase the sugar level rapidly. Lack of sleep also disturbs the hormonal balance of the body, which further increases the risk of diabetes. Continuously adopting a bad lifestyle reduces the body’s ability to use insulin properly, due to which the problem of prediabetes and diabetes starts increasing rapidly.
High BP, obesity and vitamin deficiency are also big problems.
Along with diabetes, many other health problems are also increasing rapidly. According to the report, a large number of people are also becoming victims of high BP, obesity and deficiency of essential vitamins in the body. Increasing weight increases insulin resistance in the body, which makes it difficult to control sugar.
At the same time, high BP increases the risk of heart related diseases. Apart from this, deficiency of Vitamin D and B12 also affects the functioning of the body. All these problems together make the risk of diabetes more serious, hence it is very important to pay attention to them in time.
It is possible to prevent changes in time
To avoid diabetes and prediabetes, it is very important to make changes in lifestyle in time. Exercising for at least 30 minutes daily, taking a balanced diet and staying away from sweet and processed foods can be beneficial. Along with this, it is also important to get adequate sleep and control stress. It is very important to pay attention to problems like high BP, obesity and vitamin deficiency in the body, because all these together increase the risk of diabetes.
These problems can be prevented to a great extent by keeping weight under control, staying away from salt and fried foods and taking a diet rich in vitamins. Periodic health checkup can help in timely identification of sugar, BP and other important parameters. If attention is paid in the initial stage itself, prediabetes can be controlled and diabetes can be prevented. This risk can be reduced by adopting healthy habits.