Child obesity News
The Uttar Pradesh legislator has written a letter to Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan early this week expressing his concern over the issue and that there was "no single legislation which governs all the schools in India".
A child who does not have a sibling is three times more likely to become overweight by the time he/she attains the age of 5 or 6.
The structural causes of socioeconomic inequalities have to be addressed along with tackling inherited obesity via lifestyle factors that tend to go with lower incomes.
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