Covid obesity: The fatness epidemic
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Covid obesity: The fatness epidemic

India Today  

When Samira stru­ggled with childhood obesity three years ago, her lawyer mother took her to a dietician in their home city of Kolkata. The teenager, who had a mobile phone of her own, found herself surrounded with bags of ‘emergency food’ such as biscuits, cake, bread and chocolate. As the months progressed, Samira’s mum found it increasingly difficult to control her daughter’s calorie intake. On an average day, we would eat at least one packet of instant noodles, two packets of sugared biscuits and two packets of fried namkeen,” she says.

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