At 35, Rohit was a successful company executive with long working hours, frequent client dinners and constant deadlines. He was careful enough with food. And although he did not have diabetes , he avoided sugary soft drinks most of the time and rarely ate desserts in isolation. But there was one habit he never questioned: ending almost every lunch and dinner with something sweet. Sometimes it was a small piece of mithai after office meals, sometimes ice cream during business meetings, and often “just one bite” of cake at home. Because it came after meals and not on an empty stomach, he assumed it was harmless. Except that it was not. At 42, he was diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes and his HbA1c (average blood sugar count of three months) had crossed into the diabetes range at 6.6 % instead of the normal 5.7%. The diagnosis did not emerge suddenly. It had quietly evolved through repeated sugar overloads that had seemed insignificant just a few years back.…