Diabetes has now emerged among the most common disease irrespective of income bracket. The pace at which it is growing, though considered to be life style linked, is alarming. There is over 100 per cent increase in the trend since 1990 countrywide. Not only this the disease has shown various other disorders rising among the people which is linked to it like obesity, obstructive sleep apnoea, sever kidney and urinary tract infection and many more. The most common form of the disease is linked to obesity. It also means average Indian men and women are prone to obesity due to the life style they lead with high income at disposal. This is the story of economic development which has been witnessed for the last two decades which indirectly has impacted the life style including eating and sleeping habits among the young generation. The elders saying ‘early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy wealthy and wise’ looks today a passé. Not only this there is an increase in heart diseases, blood abnormality, nerve damages, arthritis and other such disorders among young generations. However, the burden on population living with such disorders has not changed much and the causes remaining the same for quite some time. Diabetes which remained nowhere in 1990s today ranks among the ten top maladies affecting Indians. This also shows that economic development and well being has made more Indians to depend on medicines than their predecessors. Blame it on prosperity, the price Indians are paying for such malady is huge and thus can only be fathomed after some time. Till that time whatever looks healthy today may not be a realty. India needs to wakeup from the slumber and fight it out.
