Underweight Children

Hims & Hers Health plans to offer generic version of Novo Nordisk's drug

Hims & Hers currently offers compounded GLP-1 weight-loss injections at $199 per month and weight management oral medication kits at $79 per month

Around 12.5 mn children in India aged between 5-19 are obese: Report

About 12.5 million children aged between five and 19 in India were overweight in 2022, according to a global analysis published in The Lancet journal Of the 12.5, 7.3 million were boys and 5.2 million girls. The total number of children, adolescents and adults worldwide living with obesity has surpassed one billion. These trends, together with the declining prevalence of people underweight since 1990, make obesity the most common form of malnutrition in most countries, the researchers said. Obesity and underweight are both forms of malnutrition and are detrimental to people's health in many ways. The latest study provides a highly detailed picture of global trends in both forms of malnutrition over the last 33 years. The analysis by the NCD Risk Factor Collaboration (NCD-RisC) -- a global network of scientists -- and the World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that the rate of obesity among the world's children and adolescents in 2022 was four times the rate in 1990. It is very

Covid disruptions linked to rise in underweight children in India: Study

The disruption of India's food systems during the COVID-19 pandemic was associated with a steep rise in malnutrition among children as the lockdown impacted their nutritional status, according to a study. Researchers from the Tata-Cornell Institute for Agriculture and Nutrition (TCI) in New Delhi analysed pre- and post-pandemic survey data on children's health and nutrition. The study, published in the journal Economic and Political Weekly, found that the number of children deemed underweight increased by 14 per cent as a result of disruptions caused by the pandemic. These included supply chain disruptions, price inflation, loss of work and the interruption of government food safety net programme. Previous TCI research on the impact of COVID-19 has found that supply chain disruptions caused food prices to increase and that women's dietary diversity worsened during the pandemic. "Researchers long suspected that pandemic-related disruptions to India's food systems reduced access to .

Global Hunger Index: Writing on the wall, or "misleading measurements"?

The Indian government has maintained the stance that the Global Hunger Index is an "erroneous measurement of hunger" and part of a "consistent effort" to "taint India's image"

Indian children remain underweight even as childhood obesity soars globally

Only one in 10 children gets adequate nutrition in India

India had 97 million underweight children in 2016, highest in world: Lancet

If current trends continue, more children and adolescents will be obese than moderately or severely underweight by 2022, researchers said