"The three maps below, which are drawn from a new global study led by Professor Majid Ezzati of Imperial College, London, and published in the Lancet, show that, Polynesia aside, obesity was a rich-world phenomenon in 1980. By 2008 the rich world had itself expanded, bringing obesity to groups within countries that were previously considered poor, such as Brazil and South Africa. During that period, the prevalence rate of obesity among men doubled to nearly 10%. One country has stubbornly resisted this trend. For all its dynamism since India opened up its economy in 1990, its men have on average become even thinner."
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I doubt the thinning Indian men syndrome has anything to do with healthy life style. It rather exposes the income disparity and the rise of absolute poor in India. But to be fair, the current Indian "role models" (who else? but cricketers and movie stars) are marginally inspiring by being much fitter.
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