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Govt to measure children for obesity with new metric
Mint Chennai
|July 01, 2025
India plans to roll-out a nationwide screening programme for measuring obesity among school children, officials aware of the matter said.
Children will be measured for their waist-to-hip ratio—a body fat distribution metric calculated by dividing the waist circumference with the hip circumference. This key metric will be in addition to screening school children for their Body Mass Index, as part of a plan to prevent India from becoming home to the third-highest global obese population by 2050, after the US and China.
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