Narrative Review: Sugar and Rice and the Diabetes Epidemic in India-A Historical Context.

Shaminie J Athinarayanan¹, Desmond D Mascarenhas², Balaji Rajagopalan³, John W Fox⁴, Miguel A Lanaspa⁵, Richard J Johnson⁵

¹Research Department, Virta Health, Denver, CO 80216, USA.

²Department of Research, Mayflower Organization for Research & Education, Sunnyvale, CA 94085, USA.

³Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering, and CIRES, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309, USA.

⁴Department of International Studies, American University of Sharjah, Sharjah P.O. Box 26666, United Arab Emirates.

⁵Department of Medicine, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO 80045, USA.

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Abstract

South Asians appear to be particularly susceptible to diabetes. India hosts 18 percent of the world's population but more than 25 percent of the world's diabetics, and individuals of South Asian descent carry this presumed increased risk for diabetes when they emigrate to other parts of the world. One conundrum is that the epidemic of diabetes began around Calcutta (modern day Kolkata) in east Ind…

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