For people living with diabetes
Shathpavali reminds you to take a short walk after breakfast, lunch and dinner, counts your steps, and keeps your blood sugar readings in one place.
Coming soon to the App Store
The idea
Shathpavali · shath = hundred, pavali = steps
Many Indian families have long followed a simple rule: after a meal, don't sit down straight away. Get up and walk a hundred steps.
Modern research agrees that moving soon after eating helps the body use the sugar from that meal. Shathpavali turns the habit into a daily routine, with a gentle reminder after each meal and a record of how you're doing.
How it works
Tell the app when you usually eat breakfast, lunch and dinner.
Shathpavali nudges you when it's time to walk. Tap Start Walk and go.
Note your sugar readings and watch your steps, streaks and numbers over weeks and months.
Inside the app
See today's steps against your daily goal, along with distance, minutes walked and calories.
Record the readings your doctor asks about, in mg/dL, and see how they change over time.
Diabetes is easier to manage with support at home. Create a family group, or join one with a 4-digit code from a family member.
The science
After you eat, blood sugar rises. Working muscles take up sugar from the blood, so a walk soon after a meal can soften that rise.
12%
In adults with type 2 diabetes, a 10-minute walk after each meal lowered after-meal blood sugar by about 12% compared with one 30-minute walk at any time of day. The biggest benefit came after dinner.
Reynolds AN et al. Diabetologia, 2016. Randomised crossover study, 41 adults.Sooner
A review of eight trials found that exercise after eating reduced blood sugar spikes, while exercise before eating did not. Starting soon after the meal worked better than waiting.
Engeroff T et al. Sports Medicine, 2023. Systematic review and meta-analysis.Shathpavali supports the care you get from your doctor. It does not replace medicine or medical advice. If you have heart disease or other conditions, ask your doctor what level of walking is right for you.
Questions
It's made for people with diabetes or prediabetes in India, and for anyone who wants to build the habit of walking after meals.
Shathpavali is for iPhone. You can join the beta through TestFlight now, and it will be on the App Store soon.
No. You can log readings from a home glucometer or from your lab reports. Step tracking and walk reminders work without any readings.
One hundred steps is the traditional starting point and an easy habit to begin with. The studies above used walks of about 10 minutes after meals, so walk longer when you can.
One person creates a group and shares its 4-digit code. Others in the family enter the code to join.
No. Keep taking your medicines as prescribed and follow your doctor's advice. Shathpavali is a support tool for daily habits.
The iPhone beta is open now, through Apple's TestFlight app. It takes two taps.
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