Rising obesity will cause early diabetes, heart disease, and cancer, says the report, calling for urgent action.

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Aligning with Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s clarion call to combat obesity, Novo Nordisk Education Foundation (NNEF) and ...

Obesity has long been classified as a global epidemic — and new data published in The Lancet journal spotlights how much worse it could get. A team of researchers found that in 2021, one billion men ...

Both studies estimated that India’s number of overweight and obese people will keep increasing till 2050. What may be the ...

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The Ministry of Public Health (MoPH), in collaboration with its partners, recently hosted a symposium to honour 57 primary ...

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In 2021 alone, obesity-related diseases were responsible for 30,329 premature deaths, which means tens of thousands of Filipinos lost their lives too soon due to conditions linked to excess weight.

"Heart disease takes years to decades to develop, and the process starts in the younger years," one heart doctor told us.