Bloomberg Markets (November Issue)
2010/ 11/ 18 by jd in Global News
The BRICs have been racing ahead, but not all new records are enviable. With over 50 million diabetics, India is now home to more diabetics than any other nation. Over 1 million Indians are expected to die of the disease in 2010, and things are expected to get worse. “As a decade of 7 percent average annual growth lifts 400 million people into the middle class, bodies primed over generations for poverty, malnutrition and manual labor are leaving Indians ill-prepared for calorie-loaded food or the cars, TVs and computers that sap physical activity.”