per year, even as it has stabilized or fallen in North America. The result has been a tsunami of diabetes. In 2013, an estimated 11.6 percent of Chinese adults had type 2 diabetes.11 Yet the Chinese being diagnosed with diabetes have an average body mass index of only 23.7, which is considered in the ideal range. By contrast, American diabetics average a body mass index of 28.7, well within the overweight category.
