Other than decreasing physical activity, increased usage of packed foods and a calorie-laden diet has led to greater obesity among Indians in the last two decades, public health experts said here Wednesday.
The new dietary dynamics are pushing people to diabetes, heart diseases and metabolic disorders.
“In the last 20 years, India has gone through vast socio-economic transitions which have affected the dietary patterns much faster than it affected people in the West,” University of North Carolina department of nutrition professor B.M. Popkin said at a seminar on public health and nutrition here.
“In the urban India, due to the ‘supermarket’ culture, we have packed foods reaching every household, causing obesity and problems of over-nutrition,” he added.
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