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Malathy Iyer

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As seen in: The Times of India, Bangalore Mirror, ET Healthworld, MSN India, Mumbai Mirror, The Economic Times, India Times, Navbharat Times, Femina (India)
Senior Editor (Health) at The Times of India
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Indian slum children face both thinness & obesity: Study highlights double burden of malnutrition

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By Malathy Iyer 
| MSN India
Mumbai: Children growing up in India's urban slums are no longer battling just undernutrition. By the time they reach primary school, many are becoming overweight or obese, creating a dangerous “double burden of malnutrition” that could fuel future epidemics of diabetes and heart disease. That is the key finding of a new study published last week in The Lancet Regional Health.
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Indian slum children face both thinness & obesity: Study highlights double burden of malnutrition

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By Malathy Iyer 
| The Times of India
News Indian slum children face both thinness & obesity: Study highlights double burden of malnutrition Mumbai: Children growing up in India’s urban slums are no longer battling just undernutrition. By the time they reach primary school, many are becoming overweight or obese, creating a dangerous “double burden of malnutrition” that could fuel future epidemics of diabetes and heart disease.That is the key finding of a new study published last week in The Lancet Regional Health.
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40% of urban women in Maharashtra are obese, but proportion in south India is higher

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By Malathy Iyer 
| MSN India
Malathy Iyer MUMBAI: Nearly one in three women in Maharashtra (31.1%) is now overweight or obese, according to data from the National Family Health Survey-6 (NFHS), which was released on Friday. This count is up from 23.5% in the previous NFHS-5, marking a 32% increase in just a few years. The picture becomes more concerning in urban Maharashtra, where 40.1% of women have a body mass index (BMI) of 25 or above, the threshold used to classify overweight and obesity in Indians.
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