How South Africa can beat its sugar-fuelled diabetes epidemic: Four times as many people have Type II diabetes today as 36 years ago, according to the World Health Organisation. In 1980, 108 million people were diagnosed with diabetes worldwide. By 2014, the figure was 422 million. In South Africa, 7% of adults aged 21 to 79 – 3.85 million people – have diabetes. A large … [Read more...] about How South Africa can beat its sugar-fuelled diabetes epidemic | The Conversation