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A person buy groceries at a supermarket in Buenos Aires. | Photo Credit: JUAN MABROMATA A recent UNICEF report, ‘Feeding Profit: How Food Environments Are Failing Children’, estimates that one in five children and adolescents between 5 and 19 years are ‘living with overweight’. It highlights that children and adolescents are increasingly being exposed to…
According to the WHO, the rationale for including these drugs is very clear: diabetes and obesity are two of the most urgent health challenges facing the world today. Image for representation only. | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto With the World Health Organization (WHO) updating its Model Lists of Essential Medicines (EML) to add the GLP-1 class…
India has, for a while, been facing a nutrition paradox where under nutrition and obesity coexist. Image by jcomp on Freepik There is an increased focus in public discourse on growing obesity among adolescents. The seventh edition of Poshan Pakhwada, held last month, focused on childhood and adolescent obesity alongside the first 1,000 days of…
Anup Mishra, Chairman, Fortis, CDOC Hospital for Diabetes, and Allied Sciences, Chandrakanth Lahariya, Health and Social Sector Policy Advisor, Preetha Reddy, Executive Vice Chairperson, Apollo Hospitals, Ramya Kannan, Chief Of Bureau, Tamil Nadu, The Hindu during the The Hindu Huddle. | Photo Credit: K. Bhagya Prakash The explosive popularity of GLP-1 (Glucagon-Like Peptide-1) drugs for addressing…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi | Photo Credit: PMO/PTI Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday, April 19, 2025, pitched for a fitter and healthier India by taking small steps such as reducing oil intake and raising awareness about the adverse effects of obesity, as he lauded the Union Health Ministry’s efforts to mark World Liver Day….
Schoolchildren at a stall in Vijayawada. The Indian Nutrition Rating system allows foods high in fat, salt and sugar, and ultra processed foods, such as biscuits, flaunt two stars on the packet when they might otherwise have four warning signals. Similarly, a soft drink that should have a high warning in sugar instead gets two…
Chairman of AIG Hospital D. Nageshwar Reddy underscored the growing burden of obesity-related health issues while speaking at the hospital’s ‘Break The Weight’ programme on World Obesity Day in Hyderabad on Tuesday (March 4, 2025). | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement A recent study conducted by AIG Hospital among over 1,000 IT employees in Hyderabad’s Hitech…
About a fourth of men and women in India were either ‘overweight’ or ‘obese’ in 2019-21, an increase of 4 percentage points from 2015-16, underscoring the rising health risk posed by obesity in the country. While the problem is prominent among women in most South Indian States, as well as in Delhi and Punjab, the…
The ‘M2S2’ kit, consisting of 23 tests, will screen patients for blood pressure, sugar levels, cholesterol levels, kidney function tests, and an ECG, among others | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Starting from April 7, observed as World Health Day, Chennai-based private hospital MedIndia Hospitals will begin screening members of the public on a range of…
Sydney (The Conversation): As we enter a new year armed with resolutions to improve our lives, there’s a good chance we’ll also be carrying something less helpful: extra kilos. At least half a kilogram, to be precise. “Weight creep” doesn’t have to be inevitable. Here’s what’s behind this sneaky annual occurrence and some practical steps…
