This came in via a number of readers today. It's a posting from the Food News wire concerning the soaring diabetes rates in India. What's perhaps more depressing than the diabetes data (and its mischaracterisation as a 'lifestyle disease') is the fact that the article's authors can only see a solution to diet-induced disease through private healthcare. Government intervention in the marketing of food to children, for instance, isn't on the cards. With a vision as tunnelled as this, the authors would undoubtedly find a comfortable and lucrative (if brief) tenure in the current US administration. ... read more »

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Posted on 5 October, 2007 - 04:38