Type 2 diabetes is a global public health crisis that threatens the economies of all nations, particularly developing country like India. Fuelled by rapid urbanization, nutrition transition, and increasingly sedentary lifestyles, the epidemic has grown in parallel with the rise in obesity followed by type 2 Diabetes. The dynamics of the diabetes epidemic are changing rapidly. Once a disease of the West, type 2 diabetes has now spread to every country in the world. Once “a disease of affluence,” it is now increasingly common among the poor in India with the total of 65.1 million. Once an adult-onset disease almost unheard of in children, 19.2% rising rates of childhood obesity, 11% in adolescent and 20% of all adult in India have rendered it from recent research. A healthful eating pattern, regular physical activity, and often pharmacotherapy are key components of diabetes management and prevention. We know, we can not restrict a person to eat specific foods. The more we restrict, the more they thrive for the same. It may be easy to change the religion of a person but change in food habits and food culture is quite difficult.
So there is a need of efforts to identify and promote intake of culturally-acceptable high-quality staple foods could be crucial in preventing diabetes. Low glycemic index based food like Pulses and lentils can play a major role in combating the incidence and mortality associated with Diabetes and allied complications.
Promoting industries / enterpreneurs to produce low glycemic indexed based foods, value addition to pulses (Pulse based value added products) to meet the dietary, affordability and taste requirement of a person can only make the envisioned nutrition transition successful to combat the incidence of Non communicable Diseases.
I found institutions like CIGI, Canada and some others are working similarly. But there is a need of incubation to enterpreneurs to spread the same. Establishing industry, academic and enterprenurs interface can feed the Diabetics affordably and countries like India, china, others (With high number of Diabetics) can be saved from high mortality.
先生 Arun Kumar Das