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US: BMI Alone Will No Longer Be Treated as the Go-to Measure for Weight Management

Scott Hagan 27/06/2023

The AMA’s policy statement creates an important opportunity to...

Schoolchildren eat their free mid-day meal, distributed by a government-run primary school in Chapra district

NFHS 5 Has Much To Say About India’s Nutrition. Who’s Listening?

Dr Sylvia Karpagam 04/12/2021

The Indian government must look at the NFHS-5 data...

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Obesity Can Help Explain Severe COVID-19 in Young People, Study Suggests

Nerys M. Astbury, Carmen Piernas and Min Gao 04/05/2021

As we age, a weaker immune system and chronic...

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Unseen and Unheeded: India’s Looming Obesity Problem

Ashira Shirali 12/04/2021

A possible explanation for the parallel rise in obesity...

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Supporting Aspirational Districts to Help India Meet Its SDGs

Amrita Misra, Ranajit Sengupta, Tapas Mohanty, Salman Ali and Juhi Arora 28/03/2020

Due to their poor human indicators, Barpeta in Assam...

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World TB Day: Let’s Renew Our Pledge to End Tuberculosis

Pavitra Mohan and Sanjana Brahmawar 24/03/2020

The lockdowns are bound to worsen the livelihoods, food...

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Preprint Study Offers Glimpse of Solution to Missing Heritability Problem

Sukanya Charuchandra 20/05/2019

While researchers have known that a human body's height...