Morbidly obese boys and girls who slurp down 20oz sodas after

consuming their prepackaged, plastized lunches are the poster children, so to speak, of the diabetes epidemic that is ravaging the United States. But other countries, especially those in the developing world, are no longer immune to the disease that once afflicted only citizens of affluent nations. According to the International Diabetes Federation, the number of diabetics has skyrocketed during the last two decades from 30 million to 230 million. Of the ten countries with the highest number of diabetics, seven are now in the developing world.