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Arun DEPUTY EDITORS: Prachi Bhuchar, Uday Mahurkar, Manisha Saroop teen years later, this figure has climbed to YDERABAD: HANDIGARH: H Amarnath K. Menon C Asit Jolly 82 million, equal to Germany, the world’s Our October 6, 2003 Cover SENIOR EDITORS: Shweta Punj, Sasi Nair, Alokparna Das JAIPUR: Rohit Parihar 17th most populated country. India houses SENIOR ASSOCIATE EDITORS: Kaushik Deka, Ashish Mukherjee the world’s second largest population of Indian diabetics account for a whopping MUMBAI: Suhani Singh, Kiran Dinkar Tare; PATNA: Amitabh Srivastava ASSOCIATE EDITORS: Shougat Dasgupta, Chinki Sinha diabetics after China. From a lifestyle 2,111 years of healthy life lost to premature KOLKATA: Romita Sengupta; BHOPAL: Rahul Noronha; THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Jeemon Jacob disease, diabetes has turned into a violent death or disability per 100,000 population. ASSISTANT EDITOR: PUNE: Aditi S. Pai virulent epidemic, figuring in the prime We are staring at a public health crisis of PHOTO DEPARTMENT: Vikram Sharma (Deputy Photo Editor), Rajwant Singh Rawat, Yasir Iqbal (Principal Photographers), minister’s speeches and the government’s unimaginable proportions. Chandra Deep Kumar (Senior Photographer); MUMBAI: Mandar Suresh health action plans. What was earlier seen as a rich man’s Deodhar (Chief Photographer), Danesh Adil Jassawala (Photographer); KOLKATA: Subir Halder (Principal Photographer); Our cover story 'Death by Sugar' ex- disease has now engulfed social barriers. CHENNAI: N.G. Jaison (Senior Photographer) PHOTO RESEARCHERS: Prabhakar Tiwari (Chief Photo Researcher), amines the havoc wrought by this disease It’s not hard to see why. Post-liberalisation Saloni Vaid (Principal Photo Researcher), in recent years and detects some alarming India has seen rapid urbanisation, greater Shubhrojit Brahma (Senior Photo Researcher) CHIEF OF GRAPHICS: Tanmoy Chakraborty new trends. One of them is that diabetes disposable incomes, increasingly seden- ART DEPARTMENT: Sanjay Piplani (Senior Art Director); can be aggravated by air pollution. A new tary lifestyles and easy access to cheap Angshuman De (Art Director); Devajit Bora (Deputy Art Director); Vikas Verma (Associate Art Director); study on 1.7 million individuals published junk foods laced with sugar. Tonnes of it. Bhoomesh Dutt Sharma (Senior Designer) Siddhant Jumde (Senior Illustrator) in The Lancet Planetary Health this July India is the world’s sugar capital. Last year, PRODUCTION DEPARTMENT: Harish Agarwal (Chief of Production), shows how inflammation from lethal air Indians consumed 26.5 million tonnes of Naveen Gupta (Chief Coordinator), Vijay Kumar Sharma (Senior Coordinator) particles puts severe pressure on the pan- the white stuf, more than twice what the PUBLISHING DIRECTOR: Manoj Sharma creas, leading to diabetes. US consumed. ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER: Anil Fernandes (Impact) New research shows that ultra-fine pol- The implications of a large diabetic IMPACT TEAM Senior General Manager: Jitender Lad (West) lutants classed by PM2.5 can breach the population are grim—it means increased General Manager: Mayur Rastogi (North), protective barrier of blood vessels, trigger- healthcare spending and a less productive Upendra Singh (Bangalore), Kaushiky Gangulie (East) ing inflammation and greater risk of heart population. Research has established a 36 GROUP CHIEF MARKETING OFFICER: Vivek Malhotra per cent jump in years lost to diabetes due Assistant General Manager: Garima Prashar (Marketing) events, lung disease and cancer. Pollutants SALES AND OPERATIONS: D.V.S. Rama Rao, Chief General Manager interfere with the body’s ability to process to excess weight in India. Statistically, In- Deepak Bhatt, General Manager (National Sales) Vipin Bagga, Deputy General Manager (Operations) sugar. This is a double whammy because dians are at a higher risk from diabetes—in Rajeev Gandhi, Regional Sales Manager (North) India is now home to 14 of the world’s 20 2016, the incidence in India is about twice most polluted cities. the global average. Diabetes is also being aggravated by Executive Editor Damayanti Datta, another silent killer—obesity. About 20 who has tracked the steady march of this per cent of Indian adults are overweight, disease in our pages over the past decade up from just 9 per cent in 1990. 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