Development and Validation of Nutrition Education Tool Kit on Millets for Patients diagnosed with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus

Nutrition, Public health education.

Diabetes has become a highly problematic and increasingly prevalent disease worldwide. Effectiveness of millets in improving glycemic control, decreasing fasting, and postprandial rise in blood glucose concentration, reducing insulin index and insulin resistance, and lessening glycosylated hemoglobin (HbA1c) level. Millets have nutraceutical properties in the form of antioxidants that prevent and protect from the risk of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus, despite its numerous health benefits the lack of awareness among the population is one of several reasons that contribute to the decline in millet consumption. Educating people about the benefits of consuming millet can easily be done with the help of educational materials. This type of practice can have positive results, such as improving knowledge and changing the behaviors and attitudes of patients coping with the disease. The study identified the need to develop a Nutrition Education Tool kit on Millets, designed to help health educators, dietitians, physicians, other health care and nutrition professionals to educate the patients to use the information it provides to understand the health benefits, value-added products, ways to consume and easy to make recipes, of millets and to include them in their daily diet.

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