date:Sep 12, 2012
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Between 1998 and 2005, India's overweight rate increased by 20% to the point that 13% of women and 9% of men in the 1549 age group are either overweight or obese.
Health-wise, India has also become the diabetic capital of the world, with 55 million patients in 2010. Moreover, 40% of all deaths over the last decade have been cardiovascular-related, and that number is expected to cross the 50% mark by 2020, the report said.
Parekh dismissed the notion that growth is only coming from the