Editorial on diabetes

An editorial on diabetes

There has been a huge media exposure for this year's World Diabetes Day. The prevention of type 2 diabetes and its management both require an active lifestyle. This is the approach adopted in today's editorial in The Hindu, Slowing Down Diabetes

It is puzzling sometimes when some specialists in diabetes management speak gravely about the disease, while their advocacy does not connect with the policies on urbanisation, mobility and healthy lifestyle choices.

If prominent diabetologists criticised the way urbanisation is taking place, politicians and bureaucrats would listen.

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