Fri, Oct-17-08, 10:02
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[QUOTE=Wyvrn]
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Yes, that's exactly my point.
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The point that I was making with
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These are also the people who have access to organised healthcare, where knowledge of the value of early detection of diabetes, and routine testing can be applied, and information about the symptoms can be accessed.
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Was a response to this point
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Diabetes is primarily found in people who can afford extra calories, junk food and a sedentary lifestyle.
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Which I was attempting to make clear by quoting that exact part in the first place.
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That describes both the Indian middle class, and nearly all citizens of the USA. Yet the rate of diagnosed diabetes in India's middle class is twice that of the US. I think it's very likely the rate of undiagnosed diabetes in India is even higher.
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I would have thought that the diagnosis rate in India is lower than that in the USA, yes. You could well be right regarding the figures taken from just the wealthier section of the population in India, and the number of diabetics. This however, does not make any difference to the issue of how life expectancy figures are calculated, and the fact that they can be lowered by high infant mortality rates, and high rates of infectious diseases. Based on what I have read in this thread, showing me how certain some people are that diet can dominate a nation's life expectancy rate, and that they actually believe life expectancy figures are a genuine marker of the expected life span of an adult in any given nation, I am wondering if we should just find out which nation has the longest life expectancy figures and all eat whatever they eat.
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