A country where 270 million people live below the 'poverty line', obesity seemed to be a distant issue, meant for the rich kids of first world. But India is under siege: junk food, alcohol and sedentary lifestyle are leading us to silent self-destruction, making one in every five Indian men and women either obese or overweight. The article outlines the short term medical outcomes of bariatric surgery. According to a study published in the noted journal Lancet, India is just behind US and China in this global hazard list of top 10 countries with highest number of obese people.
Indians had faced under-nutrition for a long time and are now being exposed to the “overnutrition of the modern world through globalization”. With lifestyle disorders forcing more people to reel under excess body weight, even relatively younger people are developing joint disorders and knee pain. Excessive weight…
