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with abdominal obesity becoming particularly prevalent; childhood obesity rates are rising significantly across India; and concurrent increases are seen in related conditions including diabetes ...

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What is also worrying the doctors is the fact that in India, they are seeing an early and widespread onset of abdominal obesity. The trend is hitting women and alarmingly, children too.