On April 21, at 7.30 am, it was 217. On April 23, at 8 pm, it had shot up to 320. There were intense debates on TV studios with panels of diabetes experts countering each other as to when insulin should be given. Should it be at 200 or at 230? Kejriwal’s rivals asked why he was eating mangoes in jail if he is diabetic. His lawyer Abhishek Manu Singhvi had to tell the Rouse Avenue Court in Delhi: “Mangoes have been made to look like sugar bullets.” Apparently, Kejriwal also had halwa and aloo puri on the occasion of Ram Navami. Is that what a diabetic should be eating? Newspapers and websites had ‘explainers’—the go-to toolkit to bait the readers to click—where nutritionists weighed in on the molecular make-up of halwa, sugar content of potatoes, harmful effects of deep-fried items like puris. Their collective conclusion was that if eaten in moderation, it was alright.
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