Sweet, sweet Asia

The recent international summit on Asia’s growing diabetes crisis held by the World Diabetes Foundation (WDF) in Hanoi, Vietnam, saw many diabetes experts expressing the view that the disease is set to be one of the 21st century’s biggest health challenges 

THERE was a time when type 2 diabetes was considered a rather humdrum disease of the old. It was a disease of rich nations, associated with obesity. It was not the kind of disease that kept public health experts up at night.