When we wrote about the decrease of the BMI level back in 2008, we predicted that reading about an obesity epidemic in the Indian and international papers should be forthcoming and that the table had been perfectly set for the media to go ahead with the anti-obesity propaganda force-feeding. A few extra millions of obese citizens, are not a negligible customer base that can and will surely yield handsome dividends for the Big Pharma shareholders.
Well here it is folks exactly as predicted:
Obesity, diabetes: expanding India faces big problem
Worthy of note is how the increase in obesity coincides with right around the time the lower BMI was adopted and how they don't adjust or mention of that change in their rhetoric:
‘’ Childhood obesity has definitely increased in the last couple of years," said Dr Paula Goel, from the Fayth Clinic in Mumbai, which runs a weight loss programme for adolescents.’’
So predictable!
Additional reading: Ethnic-specific revisions of body mass index cutoffs to define overweight and obesity in Asians are not warranted
The World Bank malnutrition report on India
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Yep, predictable indeed.
The UK's managed to do something similar with alcohol - by increasing the assumed size of glasses people are drinking with they managed to give the appearance that people are drinking more (when in fact the opposite is the case.)
underweight and malnutrition is very high in the under 5 yrs age group , but incidence of obesity has increased alarmingly in the teenage group due to faulty eating habits and lack of physical exercise in all strata of society
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