Modi reinforced his previous recommendations to address the crisis, urging families to purchase 10% less cooking oil, and reduce its consumption by the same margin on a regular basis.
Pharma firms are pouncing on opportunity as patents on world’s second-bestselling drug, which goes by brand names Ozempic and Wegovy, are expiring in nearly 100 nations.
India's anti-obesity drug market is valued at Rs 3,000-3,500 crore and is projected to grow nearly eightfold to Rs 25,000 crore by 2030, as per estimates.
As obesity management draws awareness and weight-loss injections are launched in India, hospitals are offering customised multidisciplinary treatments, at a cost.
The consortium, Let’s Fix Our Food, has come out with suggestions to control intake of high-fat, salt & sugar foods. Over 17 mn children & adolescents in India are affected by obesity.
US pharma giant Eli Lilly's Mounjaro can prove crucial in treatment of obesity & type 2 diabetes. Launched in the US in 2022, it has since become a global blockbuster.
In 2021, 180 million Indians were either overweight or obese, second only to China. The report estimates that for India, the figure will rise to 450 million in 2050, marking a rise of 150%.
New report by The Lancet released Wednesday has suggested adopting measures apart from body mass index (BMI) to determine excess body fats in individuals and to define obesity.
By consolidating 29 laws into four codes, compliance is streamlined and regulations are simplified, improving “ease of doing business”. This is bound to improve investor confidence.
Rural ownership of motor vehicles jumped from 19 percent in 2011-2012 to 59 percent in 2023-2024, while urban rose from 40 percent to 68 percent during the same time period, study by two members of PM-EAC says.
At the Jindal Literature Festival, Maj Gen (Retd) Lakhwinder Singh reveals secrets from 25 years ago, speaking about the decision that outwitted Musharraf and changed the course of the war.
It is a brilliant, reasonably priced, and mostly homemade aircraft with a stellar safety record; only two crashes in 24 years since its first flight. But its crash is a moment of introspection.
Protein shortage is the problem, Modiji. Ask Punjab far ers to stop growing rice and switch to growing pulses and oilseeds, to eliminate imports. Ask them to help in Atmanirbharta. Obesity is happening due to too much carbs, because of cheap PDS rice being given. And stop opposing eggs in mid-day meals.
Protein shortage is the problem, Modiji. Ask Punjab far ers to stop growing rice and switch to growing pulses and oilseeds, to eliminate imports. Ask them to help in Atmanirbharta. Obesity is happening due to too much carbs, because of cheap PDS rice being given. And stop opposing eggs in mid-day meals.