{"id":19743,"date":"2020-06-27T07:00:17","date_gmt":"2020-06-26T22:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/27\/our-diet-is-killing-us-quietly-fijis-diabetes-crisis"},"modified":"2020-06-27T07:00:17","modified_gmt":"2020-06-26T22:00:17","slug":"our-diet-is-killing-us-quietly-fijis-diabetes-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=19743","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Our diet is killing us quietly&#8217;: Fiji&#8217;s diabetes crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly one-third of Fijians have diabetes, and the disease is often not caught until amputation, or even death, are imminent<\/p>\n<p>At the height of his 15-year career as a surgeon in the Pacific nation of Fiji, Dr Jone Hawea was performing eight to 10 diabetes-related operations every day \u2013 at least two of which were the amputations of limbs. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur wards are always full of diabetes cases. Sometimes our surgical wards wouldn\u2019t be able to deal with the non-emergency cases because there\u2019s all this diabetes surgery to do,\u201d says Hawea.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/27\/our-diet-is-killing-us-quietly-fijis-diabetes-crisis\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly one-third of Fijians have diabetes, and the disease is often not caught until amputation, or even death, are imminentAt the height of his 15-year career as a surgeon in the Pacific nation of Fiji, Dr Jone Hawea was performing eight to 10 diabete&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1399,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,1484,436,346,874,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-diabetes","category-fiji","category-health","category-pacific-islands","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1399"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19743"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19744,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19743\/revisions\/19744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}