An estimated 350 million people in the world have diabetes, according to a major new international study published Online First by The Lancet.

The study shows that diabetes prevalence has risen (in many cases sharply), or at best remained unchanged, in virtually every part of the world during the past three decades.

self-help guide - diet tips, recipes

The Article authors are Professor Majid Ezzati, Imperial College London, UK, and Dr Goodarz Danaei, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA, and colleagues. Patients with diabetes have inadequate blood sugar control.

This is a shame when a simple food addition could help to prevent the onset of adult Type 2 diabetes.  A daily dose of bay leaf tea would also control blood sugar levels in the blood.  In certain parts of the world, people are too ready to embrace North American lifestyles and abandon their tried, tested and proven natural ways of living.

There is a heavy penalty to be paid for so-called progress in the developing world.  In the island of Barbados, someone loses a limb everyday from complications due to diabetes – this was unheard a decade ago. The population there is well educated and have assumed desk jobs that have no exercise components but they have not stopped eating the food they ate when everyone did some type of manual job that required all kinds of daily exercise.