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There's a good documentary on YouTube about how western food companies are making people in poorer countries fatter. It's called Global Junk Food and opens up in India, a potentially massive market for fast food restaurants with 1.3 billion people. While some Indians are still…

The last time I spoke to my grandmother, she asked me what I used to drink during the heat waves in Cyprus. I told her: soda. Lots and lots of soda. This was years before I developed diabetes and could still have sugar. My granny…

The $110 billion anti-aging industry may be a lost cause. A new study suggests that it's impossible to stop or even reverse the aging process. It challenges the ideas in the groundbreaking book Lifespan with cellular programming as the next frontier in aging research. The…

When it comes to diabetes, there are four things that begin with T to look out for. They are toilet, thirsty, tired, and thinner. I wish I would have been aware of these before my diagnosis. I was constantly running to the bathroom but put…

Obesity and diabetes are common amongst pacific islanders. In Nauru, which scores the highest, 94,5% of adults are overweight, and 71.7% are obese with a BMI above 30. Forty percent of the adult population has type 2 diabetes. How did this happen? Nauru is a…