Obesity epidemic of India

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Obesity in India is on the rise. It has reached enormous proportions. As I sit and count at airports, the number of women who look obviously overweight and obese, the figures I get is 8 out of 10. And this is around same in children of all sexes and around 6 in 10 men show clearcut overweight and obesity that is obvious even to naked eye. Anthropometric measurements might reveal more of them.  What are the likely causes? I have a theory that starts analysing these cases right from the 2000s or previous century. Junk food eating and sedantry lifestyle had already given an upward push to obesity in last century. And this also gave rise to diabetes mellitus in both men and women. Hence, such mothers also had diabetes in pregnancy. Some who did not have diabetes otherwise had gestational diabetes. From 2000 to 2026 prevalence of gestational diabetes has risen in india. It has even spread to rural areas and recent national data gives a figure of 22.4% which is almost 1 in 4 pregnant mot...
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Donald Trump and his ample failures during his Presidency 2016-2020 and COVID-19 pandemic 2020-2021!

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Donald’s presidency started in 2016 and his last year in office was in 2020 when the coronavirus pandemic struck the world. But his policies against it were a failure. Nearly 450k people died in this pandemic and the mean life expectancy also fell by 1.13 years. The fatality rate of the USA due to COVID-19 was 40% higher than that of the other nations. And many of these deaths were easily preventable if the political head was good enough to handle the situation well.

The Lancet report of the Commission on Public Policy and Health

The Commission on Public Policy and Health released a report on the health situation during the Trump-era on 20 February 2021. It detailed the impact of Donald Trump’s policies on the population health of the USA. His actions have been labelled as incompetent and malevolent.

The former President had suppressed scientific facts related to the pandemic. His intention was only economic and did not help the people of the nation. He delayed testing and also mocked face mask-wearing. This did not go well in the national interest. He also went ahead to conduct large gatherings when social distancing guidelines should have made him not do it. He talked about unproven treatments for COVID-19 virus. 


Also, read on Retaliative politics of the USA and India! 

Donald Trump and his wrong policies

The ex-President also pulled the USA from the Paris climate accord and the WHO despite global warming and its ill consequences. He appointed the wrong people on important posts of departments meant to protect people from environmental and occupational hazards. There were regulations in place before but with these wrong appointments, regulations were rolled back and led to 22k deaths in 2019.

Donald’s tax policy was also faulty and led to a USD 1.9 trillion tax cut for wealthy people. This caused a budget hole and needy people’s food and housing assistance was affected negatively. He tried to repeal the ACA and the number of uninsured Americans rose by 2.3 million.

Donald Trump and his human rights violations

The former President did mean acts towards humanity such as non allowing refuge to people of neighboring nations who were trying to flee violence in their countries. He abused immigrant detainees and also penalized them.

Donald Trump-the failed President of the USA [Source: The Atlantic]

Such anti-American and Anti-humanity policies had been done in the past as well by other Presidents of the USA. Nixon, Reagan, Bill Clinton, all have done things that have affected the USA in a negative way. All these have led to health gaps, income gaps, and also education gaps.

Joe Biden has a mighty task ahead to set right the long-term damage of the wrong and biased policies of the previous Presidents of the USA.

 

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