Public health: India's diabetes time bomb.

The article observes that India's embrace of the worst of both Eastern and Western ways is causing the increase in rapid lifestyle diseases such as obesity and diabetes. Topics discussed include statistics on diabetes prevalence from the International Diabetes Foundation (IDF) and the Madras Diabetes Research Foundation as well as thrifty genotypes being tagged as a culprit. Also mentioned are the problem of the thrifty genotype beginning in the womb and screening for gestational diabetes.