{"id":76322,"date":"2026-02-10T19:00:18","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T10:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2026\/feb\/10\/traditional-food-could-help-reverse-nepals-diabetes-epidemic-studies-suggest"},"modified":"2026-02-10T19:00:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T10:00:18","slug":"traditional-food-could-help-reverse-nepals-diabetes-epidemic-studies-suggest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=76322","title":{"rendered":"Traditional food could help reverse Nepal\u2019s \u2018diabetes epidemic\u2019, studies suggest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With medication largely unaffordable in the country, experts hope community support and a change in diet could reduce soaring type 2 diabetes rates<\/p>\n<p>A return to the traditional lentil and rice dishes that have nourished generations of Nepalis could save them from a diabetes epidemic prompted by the influx of western junk foods, doctors have said.<\/p>\n<p>In a country where <a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/35193925\/\">one in five of those over 40 has type 2 diabetes<\/a>, the foods enjoyed by their grandparents have showed remarkable results in reversing the condition.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2026\/feb\/10\/traditional-food-could-help-reverse-nepals-diabetes-epidemic-studies-suggest\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With medication largely unaffordable in the country, experts hope community support and a change in diet could reduce soaring type 2 diabetes ratesA return to the traditional lentil and rice dishes that have nourished generations of Nepalis could save &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4669,"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":[1484,59,566,241,79,61,3460,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diabetes","category-global-development","category-global-health","category-nepal","category-society","category-south-and-central-asia","category-ultra-processed-foods","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\/76322","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\/4669"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76322"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76323,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76322\/revisions\/76323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}