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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Unhealthy Indian society and it's implications

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 Health of Society is equally important as that of an individual. But outdated cultures and negative mindsets of people can affect the society's health and cause it to deteriorate. Take for instance, the love and worship of a male child in Indian society worldwide. This has not changed over the years despite laws being laid for gender equality under British colonial rule as well as self-rule. 

Love and worship of male children

In the regressive Indian culture, male child is valued while female children and women are just taken as a symbol of sex and reproduction. Despite women of today pursuing higher education and taking up important roles in the society and workforce, nothing substantial has changed for them at the home front. 

Read here: How human milk banks in India are exploiting women in the name of nobility?

Besides, such independent women in India are a minimum and cannot put forth their points assertively. And at home, they still continue to follow culture laid gender roles with very few men really helping them in cooking, child care, and such household chores. There is no sharing in care of children and household chores. 

The dislike for female progeny has reached such enormous heights that parents abort female fetuses and feel no shame in doing so. The female feticide continues underground even though there are some punitory laws made related to it. These laws in no way has truly helped in reducing female feticide even though government is shouting its lungs out that it has. 


Let us look at what all this absence of gender parity and hate for female progeny has led to in India especially in the Northern states where patriarchal society is stronger than that in Southern parts of India. 

1. Female feticide 

2. Female infanticide 

3. Improper maternal nutrition and increased maternal deaths. 

4. Dissatisfaction and unhappiness in women and girls 

5. Overburden and tension in working married women

6. No support for women

7. Mental disorders in women

8. Women becoming a liability 

9. Women considered a burden to shed at the earliest 

10. Wrong notion that women cannot be independent 

11. Men getting no brides due to skewed sex ratio 

12. Rise in sex brides. So you see, despite men suffering with lesser brides, the ultimate victim still is the girl or women who is kidnapped and used as sex brides in states like Haryana and Punjab. And government is a mute spectator of this all.

13. Increasing number of women opting for no marriages or overseas transfers or marrying non-Indian men. If Indian men think they can get brides from overseas, then with it with come problems for them because non-Indian women will not take any nonsense from Indian men if they ill-treat her!!!

So you see, the ultimate sufferer would be the men, present and future, in India. Why not just start respecting women and treating her well if you want a good society and family in future??? If your aim is only sex and reproduction, with no happiness, then go ahead and continue to do what wrongs you are doing now! All the best!

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