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China’s diabetes crisis

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China has a diabetes problem. A big one (STATS):

“A 2013 report published in the Journal of the American Medical Association… showed that 10.9 percent [of Chinese adults] have diabetes, higher than the U.S. rate of 9.4 percent.”
“That means about 120 million people have diabetes.”
“Among the C...