From The Daily Mail?..
It?s a situation of our own making. Our children are getting fatter with every passing year. Three out of every ten kids studying in a private school in the city are obese, says a survey done by the Diabetes Foundation of India.
We can also boast of having the largest number of children with type-1 diabetes in the region ? most of the 112,000 children with this problem hail from India, according to the recently released Diabetes Atlas.
Overweight children face an unhealthy future. Apart from diabetes, they are prone to developing hypertension, heart disease, depression and some cancers too.
Early puberty is common in overweight girls while fat boys grapple with delayed puberty, due to the inhibiting effect of fat on testosterone production. This is a dire scenario and the question that arises is, are we just going to stand back and watch?
So far that?s all we have done. National attempts to tackle the problem are almost non-existent.
The noises made about banning fast foods in school canteens have died down.
Most recently, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare announced its newest move to tackle childhood obesity ? developing a health education module with the NCERT to educate children on good health practices, slated to become a compulsory subject in the CBSE syllabus.
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