Fast food ‘fuelling Asia diabetes boom’
Jul 10, 2010 English 1st Paragraph
Many Vietnamese have diabetes but are unaware of it – and the condition is spreading fast in South East Asia, scientists have warned. A study by Australian and Vietnamese scientists found about 11% of men and 12% of women in Vietnam’s Ho Chi Minh City had undiagnosed type 2 diabetes…
- A boom is a sudden increase in something.
- A fuel is something that provides heat and power for a machine etc to work. Wood, coal, oil, petrol and gas are all different kinds of fuel. “Fast food is fuelling diabetes boom” means fast food is causing diabetes to be much more common.
- If someone has undiagnosed diabetes, he or she has diabetes but doctors have not discovered his/her disease yet.
July 10th, 2010 at 7:39 pm
The western way of eating is not a good thing for the health. Diabets and cholesterol are important because of hight level of sugar and fat. About the practises of eating in Asia, it’s a very interesting book wrote by a scientist, a biologist T.Colin Campell, about his searches of more of than 30 years:The China study.
July 11th, 2010 at 6:46 am
In this study, he proves with a lot of statistics that in Asia there’s a good way of eating ,without the kind of illness that we have in western, but it changed when people, in big towns, had had the same way of life that ours. He proves vegetarian is a good way for us and the planet.