{"id":48695,"date":"2022-09-21T08:45:13","date_gmt":"2022-09-20T23:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/sep\/21\/i-should-eat-more-vegetables-living-with-diabetes-in-rural-china"},"modified":"2022-09-21T08:45:13","modified_gmt":"2022-09-20T23:45:13","slug":"i-should-eat-more-vegetables-living-with-diabetes-in-rural-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=48695","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I should eat more vegetables\u2019: living with diabetes in rural China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Li acknowledges the link between his changing diet and his diabetes, a disease that costs him a large chunk of his income in medical bills<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/sep\/21\/chinas-hidden-epidemics-the-preventable-diseases-that-could-reshape-a-nation\">China\u2019s \u2018hidden epidemics\u2019: the preventable diseases that could reshape a nation<\/a> <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Li, a retired farmer who lives in Henan province in central China, has type 2 diabetes. The condition is manageable but comes with large out-of-pocket expenses, a common feature for people in China, especially those who, like Li, live in rural areas and don\u2019t have the best insurance policies.<\/p>\n<p>Li doesn\u2019t like to complain too much, though, and says his children help him with the bills.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/sep\/21\/i-should-eat-more-vegetables-living-with-diabetes-in-rural-china\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Li acknowledges the link between his changing diet and his diabetes, a disease that costs him a large chunk of his income in medical billsChina\u2019s \u2018hidden epidemics\u2019: the preventable diseases that could reshape a nation Li, a retired farmer who lives in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":443,"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":[41,50,1484,346],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-diabetes","category-health"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48695","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\/443"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48695"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48696,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48695\/revisions\/48696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}