Diabetes, a rising disease

Listening exercise to do: Why is the disease diabetes on the rise? (6 Minute English, BBC Learning English)

Related articles to read about the issue and some other eating disorders:

• Is Diabetes Becoming the Biggest Epidemic of the Twenty-first Century?  (IJHS)

• Diabetes epidemic affecting 350m – and western fast food is to blame  (The Guardian)

• Eating disorders: My son died – if he'd been a girl, he may have got help sooner (BBC News beat)

• Men need help as well as women with eating disorders, say medical experts (BBC News beat)

Do you really know what the word 'time' means? Here are nine of its many uses (BBC Learning English). Can you tell me any more you know?

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