India is fast growing into one of the obesity centres of the developing world. This, even as the country has the most number of starving children on earth.
The fourth National Family Health Survey of 2015-2016 reveals a doubling of obesity figures since 2005 – with up to 30% of the adult urban population found to be overweight in states like Andhra Pradhesh, Tamil Nadu, Telangana and Puducherry.
A 2015 study by the British medical journal Lancet found India to be the world’s third most obese country. Much has to do with the diet, although genetics also play a part.
The problem of being overweight has led people to focus on losing weight – often through unhealthy and unrealistic means. Seldom does a day goes by without a weight-loss method being mentioned in a headline, or a dieting technique being endorsed by a celebrity. The slim look is marketed on a massive scale – with advertisers holding up the ‘size-zero’ image of the stars.
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