Diabetes: The Global Evil

If you are living in India, then I am sure that you must know at least one person who is suffering from Diabetes. Yeah it’s that common in our country. This is the reason why India is also known as the “Diabetes capital of the world”. But according to some recent studies, there are approximately 422 million diabetic patients in the world and India ranks third in that list. Surprised? Wondering who are the other countries? They are China and the United States of America. According to the reports, about 50 per cent of the total patients suffering from Diabetes are from China, USA, India and Brazil alone. That means about 211 million patients are just from the four countries of the world and remaining are from the rest. These numbers are insane! What are the reasons behind these numbers? Apparently, there are end number of reasons behind these numbers like bad lifestyle, lack of education, no regular health monitoring, genetics and the most important of all, the food an...