NEW DELHI, INDIA, April 22, 2002: “Globally obesity has become a problem as more individuals consume vegetable oil and refined sugar in their diets,” so says the medical journal, Lancet. While Coca-Cola and McDonalds hamburgers have contributed to the problem in some countries, K. Srinath Reddy, a Professor of Cardiology at the All-India Institute of Medical Sciences, agrees that increased fat consumption along with sedentary lifestyles is a problem among middle-class Indians. The article also goes on to say that more than half of the world’s cases of newly diagnosed diabetes every day come from India and China, and that obesity in China has tripled in the last eight years.
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