– And their funding comes from?
I had touched upon my lead subject a few columns back, writing during a vacation abroad. I mentioned that my few sentences back then were not meant to trivialize what is now a serious worldwide disease and condition, notwithstanding my light-hearted-sounding style.
Because I have already learnt so much more, added to my sense that, amidst culinary and dietary excesses, many will find time to read all this today, before hitting the party/entertainment circuit, I return to the topic.
But even though I’ve informed myself through interesting literature, it is not my intention to recite definitions, causes, symptoms and characteristics – behavioural and remedial – most likely known to sufferers/victims of diabetes. Rather, I share the findings and views of some American doctors and researchers.
No longer under-rated
An American Consultant to the World Health Organisation who also heads a Diabetes Translational Research Centre declares that over decades he has seen diabetes – and its complications – grow, virtually unabated. The WHO estimates that some 350 million people world-wide have the condition. Very recently,
