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Podcast: In Focus by The Hindu
Episode: In Focus-Weekend | ‘Sick Nation’: Are you eating your way into metabolic dysfunction?
Description: Everyone knows someone with diabetes or heart disease or non-alcoholic fatty liver disease. It’s impossible to find somebody who doesn’t have at least one victim of these diseases in their family or friends circle. That’s how widespread they’ve become. All these disorders share one thing in common – all are ‘lifestyle diseases’ linked to insulin resistance and metabolic dysfunction.
For the longest time, India’s biggest public health challenge was controlling infectious diseases. But now we have an epidemic of lifestyle diseases, causing millions of premature deaths.
A new book ‘Sick Nation’, drills down to the r...