Via Xinhua :
" BEIJING, May 31 : Diabetes is rapidly becoming one of the biggest dangers to teenagers and even young children in China due to a serious lack of nutritional education, warn health experts.
It was confirmed last week that the country has the highest population of diabetics in the world, with more than 92 million sufferers.
According to figures from the Chinese Medical Doctors' Association, children make up about 5 percent of that figure. The number of juveniles with the potentially fatal condition is rising by 10 percent every year, a report by the association said.
But it is not just the impact on a child's health doctors are concerned about.
Discrimination toward diabetes can also seriously affect a sufferer's chances of finding a job or even getting accepted into college."
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