Dear MEL Topic Readers,
India, notorious for malnutrition, is now a land of obesity
Sounds very contrary to the general perception of India. While over 40% of the children are underweight, there is a growing number of kids who are getting too much weight, some of them are even classified as obese. Why?
This is a country where being fat has been regarded as a sign of wealth and status. Once parents become able to afford to feed their family with any food, they seem to let their kids eat what and as much as they like. When that happens, they jump on Western-style fat and carb rich fast food and sugary drinks, such as burgers, fries, pizza, and sodas.
To make the situation even worse, those kids of growing middle-class families are expected spend a lot of time on sitting at their desks to study in their air-conditioned rooms. When they aren’t studying, they prefer sitting in their rooms playing with their tablets or smartphones to playing with other kids outside, where the temperatures go over 40 degrees and the air is heavily polluted in major cities like Delhi.
Children are so vulnerable to this kind of radical shift in lifestyle that they are losing the balance between calorie intake and consumption.
As overweight or obesity from early ages could lead to diabase, “diabesity” has become a common phrase to describe the problem.
Enjoy reading and learning how this under-nutrition country has become an over-nutrition country so fast.
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