{"id":7769,"date":"2009-06-01T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-01T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/06\/01\/asia-facing-diabetes-explosion\/"},"modified":"2009-06-01T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-01T12:00:00","slug":"asia-facing-diabetes-explosion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/06\/01\/asia-facing-diabetes-explosion\/","title":{"rendered":"Asia Facing &#8220;Diabetes Explosion&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/asia-pacific\/8069431.stm\">news.bbc.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>UNITED KINGDOM, May 29, 2009: New research suggests diabetes is becoming a global problem, with more than 60% of all cases likely to occur in Asia. India will see its numbers grow from 40 million to nearly 70 million.<\/p>\n<p>A study in the Journal of the American Medicine Association shows those hit in Asia are younger and less likely to be overweight than those in the West.<\/p>\n<p>The study said trends of diabetes in Asia are influenced by everything from genetic and cultural differences. While in the West, type-2 diabetes is often seen as a consequence of diet, age and obesity, in Asia it is not. <\/p>\n<p>The problem is that although Asian obesity rates are low, changing diets and sedentary lifestyles, associated with rapid economic development, are taking their toll. <\/p>\n<p>An informative video can be seen <a href=\"http:\/\/vodpod.com\/watch\/1167723-bbc-news-south-asia-india-battles-diabetes-epidemic\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: news.bbc.co.uk UNITED KINGDOM, May 29, 2009: New research suggests diabetes is becoming a global problem, with more than 60%,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7769\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}