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Obesity in India has reached epidemic proportions in the 21st century, with morbid obesity affecting 5% of the country's population. [1] India is following a trend of other developing countries that are steadily becoming more obese. Unhealthy, processed food has become much more accessible following India's continued integration in global food ...
This is a list of countries by obesity rate, with data from the World Health Organization ... India: 7.21 173 Uganda: 6.88 174 South Korea: 6.73 175 Nepal: 6.58 176 ...
India is a hub for pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries; world-class scientists, clinical trials and hospitals yet country faces daunting public health challenges like child undernutrition, high rates of neonatal and maternal mortality, growth in noncommunicable diseases, high rates of road traffic accidents and other health related issues.
The market opportunity is huge in the world's most populous country, which has high obesity rates, especially among women, and the second-highest number of people with type-2 diabetes globally ...
Obesity has been observed throughout human history. Many early depictions of the human form in art and sculpture appear obese. [2] However, it was not until the 20th century that obesity became common — so much so that, in 1997, the World Health Organization (WHO) formally recognized obesity as a global epidemic [3] and estimated that the worldwide prevalence of obesity has nearly tripled ...
A large meta-analysis revealed that lack of social relationships can influence mortality risk just as much as smoking and alcohol consumption—even more so than well-established risk factors like ...
A new study estimates the global health impacts of drinking sugar-sweetened drinks. According to an analysis of 184 countries, 2.2 million new cases of type 2 diabetes were attributed to these ...
On the other hand, over-nutrition also has severe consequences. In India national obesity rates in 2010 were 14% for women and 18% for men with some urban areas having rates as high as 40%. [4] Obesity causes several non-communicable diseases such as cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, cancers and chronic respiratory diseases. [2]