Developing Nations Get Fatter

Obesity is often associated with affluent nations - but times are changing. A number of trends are emerging showing that many developing nations are experiencing a growth in waistlines. What is surprising is that this is happening right alongside starving and undernourishment.

India in particular is showing signs of increasing obesity:

Praween's study of 90,000 women aged between 15 and 49 from across India found that among women who began at a normal weight, 31 percent became overweight and seven percent obese within four years, while 60 percent of those retained their normal weight. Of those women already overweight 29 percent had become obese.

The author of the study sums up the reasons quite well:

In many developing countries, with increasing urbanisation and mechanisation of jobs and transport, availability of processed and fast foods, and dependence on television for leisure people are adopting less physically active lifestyles and more energy dense and nutrient poor diets, Agrawal said.

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