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My First Blog Post

Be yourself; Everyone else is already taken.
— Oscar Wilde.

This is the first post on my new blog. I’m just getting this new blog going, so stay tuned for more. Subscribe below to get notified when I post new updates.

Diabetes is the largest health emergency of 21^st century. It is affecting people in their most productive age causing disability, premature death and draining finances. In the year 2017, 425 million people in the world in age group 20-79 years (adults) had diabetes. This number is expected to rise by around 50% in the year 2045. Diabetes in children is also on the rise. It is no longer a disease of old people; it is affecting all age groups children, adults, pregnant women and elderly. Diabetes is no longer a disease of the rich or of city-dwellers. It is affecting both the rich and poor, urban and rural dwellers.

Another 212 million people in the world are undiagnosed. This makes the total number of people with diabetes 637 million, which is around 9 percent of world population. Diabetes if untreated can cause complications in various organs of the body like heart, eye, kidney, foot amputation and can even cause death. Complications in diabetes can lead to hospitalisation and increasing healthcare expenditure. Number of people dying due to diabetes is more than the number of deaths due to AIDS, tuberculosis (TB) and malaria combined. We are facing a big health challenge globally, which is draining our financial resources.

Therefore, diabetes is affecting people of all ages, rich and poor, urban and rural dwellers, a major cause of deaths across the globe and is draining our finances. This makes it very important for us to understand the disease. Physicians/doctors/scientists are the experts but we, as common people should know a bit about this killer disease. This post will help us understand how big a problem diabetes is and why governments and experts across the world are raising alarm bells.

Introduce Yourself (Example Post)

This is an example post, originally published as part of Blogging University. Enroll in one of our ten programs, and start your blog right.

You’re going to publish a post today. Don’t worry about how your blog looks. Don’t worry if you haven’t given it a name yet, or you’re feeling overwhelmed. Just click the “New Post” button, and tell us why you’re here.

Why do this?

Because it gives new readers context. What are you about? Why should they read your blog?
Because it will help you focus you own ideas about your blog and what you’d like to do with it.

The post can be short or long, a personal intro to your life or a bloggy mission statement, a manifesto for the future or a simple outline of your the types of things you hope to publish.

To help you get started, here are a few questions:

Why are you blogging publicly, rather than keeping a personal journal?
What topics do you think you’ll write about?
Who would you love to connect with via your blog?
If you blog successfully throughout the next year, what would you hope to have accomplished?

You’re not locked into any of this; one of the wonderful things about blogs is how they constantly evolve as we learn, grow, and interact with one another — but it’s good to know where and why you started, and articulating your goals may just give you a few other post ideas.

Can’t think how to get started? Just write the first thing that pops into your head. Anne Lamott, author of a book on writing we love, says that you need to give yourself permission to write a “crappy first draft”. Anne makes a great point — just start writing, and worry about editing it later.

When you’re ready to publish, give your post three to five tags that describe your blog’s focus — writing, photography, fiction, parenting, food, cars, movies, sports, whatever. These tags will help others who care about your topics find you in the Reader. Make sure one of the tags is “zerotohero,” so other new bloggers can find you, too.