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June 30, 2026, 03:25 PM - 6 min read
Children in the poorest neighbourhoods are more than twice as likely to be obese compared with those in the wealthiest neighbourhoods. For severe obesity, the gap is more than fourfold and is still widening.
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March 22, 2026, 01:24 PM - 5 min read
Obesity causes hormonal changes that accelerate child growth, meaning that obese children often grow taller faster than their healthy-weight peers.
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February 27, 2026, 06:34 PM - 3 min read
While the AIG study makes it clear that in younger Indians below 30 years, a poor lifestyle combined with obesity genes makes them 16 times more likely to be obese, it also offers a way forward. Despite the handicap of ‘bad genes’, if young Indians adopt a healthy lifestyle, it is actually three times more effective at ‘turning off’ the impact of the bad genes, compared to older generations, study said.
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