As shelves in Indian grocery stores fill with brightly packaged snacks and sugary drinks, a quiet but serious health crisis is brewing. Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) such as obesity, diabetes, and ...

(Reuters) -Eli Lilly said the response for its blockbuster drug Mounjaro has been "positive" in India, adding that it is ...

Cartoons exaggerated it to mock politicians ... The numbers on abdominal obesity in India are already troubling. According to the latest National Family Health Survey (NFHS-5) - which, for ...

India has finally introduced updated guidelines to address the country's unique health challenges, after relying on the body mass index (BMI) as a primary measure of obesity for over 15 years.

The term overweight is no more a part of the India-specific obesity guidelines that were revised after nearly 15 years and published on Wednesday. The term overweight has been replaced with ...

NEW DELHI, (IANS) – Obesity among boys and girls in India is likely to see an annual rise of 9.1 percent by 2035, if prevention, treatment, and support do not improve, warned an alarming global ...

Rising obesity rates are meanwhile adding to diabetes cases, with India counting 212 million diagnosed adults in 2022. Some Indians dealing with obesity are turning to bariatric surgeries that ...

Obesity is becoming the biggest epidemic in India. The number of people suffering from obesity has increased rapidly in the last few years. A recent report in The Lancet says that every year about ...