25% of urban Indian women are overweight or obese, says survey
Posted on: 14/Jul/2015 11:30:53 AM
In a shocking survey, researchers found that one in every four women in India are either overweight or obese. This is even more shocking in the wake of the country trying to fight malnutrition and anaemia.
The survey was done in urban areas. It shows that 25 per cent of urban women are either overweight or obese compared to 20 per cent of the men. This survey was conducted by the National Family Health Survey (NFHS) and the Indian version of Demographic Health Survey (DHS). The findings were announced at a two day conference on bariatric surgery in New Delhi.
‘About 44 per cent of diabetes and an estimated 10 to 40 per cent of certain cancer cases are attributable to overweight or obesity. Obesity reduces the life span of an individual by an increased risk of diabetes, cancer, heart attacks, stroke, kidney and liver failure... These findings throw up a strange challenge of two different nutrition-related health problems in the country — one of undernutrition and anaemia in one hand and overweight or obesity on the other... Our country has been struggling with undernutrition with a substantial 40 per cent of the country being undernourished. Here comes another 20 per cent ‘over-nourished’ population, and taken together, India has 60 per cent improperly nourished population and this is a matter of concern’, say experts.
