Health

I had never been as health-conscious all my life until something weird happened to me one early morning. I almost lost consciousness while I was in the comfort room at about 1:30 in the morning due to stomachache.

The next morning, I found out that my blood sugar level went abnormally high for me. No, don’t get me wrong. I was never diagnosed yet to be diabetic. It was a new discovery for me that my blood sugar went pfft.

Then it dawned on me. Am I already diabetic? 

I had to have my HbA1c be done. The result showed 6.7. Limit to the normal level is 6. I showed it to a specialist. Reaction: Go on diet!

I would not want myself to be enslaved by maintenance drugs. So I searched for natural approaches. I became more aware of my carbo intake. Even meat has become a no-no for me. I was just conditioning myself, they are poisons for me. 

I now appreciate diet discipline and herbs. I got interested with insulin plant, guyabano leaves, serpentina, guava leaves, and frozen lemon. I also got interested with ketogenic diet where the body would learn to make use of stored fats for fuel. 

Then I felt bodily changes. My tummy is beginning to trim down. No more headaches and sluggish feeling. 

One doctor posited that to reverse a diabetic type 2 condition is not to control only the symptoms or manifestations. He said, diabetes type 2 is a diet-caused condition. Therefore, the best way to reverse it is to control the source of high blood sugar: the food intake. Disciplined diet is the key.

For now, I wish to follow a disciplined regimen for diabetes reversal. Many will shrug shoulders off because the norm for diabetes is progressive. I might just be the exception, if I will succeed.

Academic Leadership

If there is one challenging work within a school system, it is academic leadership.

One has to be clear with what has to be done to steer everyone to help achieve the vowed academic goals of the institution. Couple this with effective people-management skills.

I guess every school wants to be known as academically excellent - capable of enabling its students to gain the necessary competencies and skills they need in their chosen fields of study. Every academic leader needs to know that it is not enough for the teachers to have well-crafted teaching-learning plans. The quality of the delivery and instruction inside the classroom is more important than the plan. This is where the challenge is.

Unless there is close supervision of what is going on inside the classroom, academic leaders may not be able to really get a good grasp of the real picture. In basic education, there is a risk that the expectation may not really be taking place.

Academic leadership is more than what one might think. There is real challenge.

Resurrection

It has been a while that my blog has been in hibernation.

For so many times, I wanted to write again the thoughts which like to burst out of the crevices of my brain. Hopefully, with sense.

I wish I can really find time again.

Would this be the beginning of the resurrection?

I hope.