Friends,
As per the present statistics, India is having around 18 percent obese population. Obesity is the invitee to many diseases like BP, Diabetes, infertility, Heart attacks, Cancer and early mortality. There is an urgent need to reduce this burden, else large no of our population will have to suffer from many fatal disease and burden on economy will rise many folds.
Thousands of years ago, Ancient Indian medical science, i.e. Ayurveda has professed this fact of Obesity burden and related complication and premature death. And has given dietary guidelines and certain herbal Medicines to overcome obesity and obesity related complication in the chapters called “Santarpan Janya Vikar”.
It’s an urgent need that we all follow these guidelines strictly and prevent our self and our nation from this Obesity pandemic.
PM Modi flags impending obesity crisis in India
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday (March 7, 2025) stressed the need to reduce weight as he cited a report which claimed that nearly 44 crore people in India may be obese by 2050, and described the figure as “huge and scary”. The Prime Minister informed the audience that his government was planning to open 25,000 new Jan Aushadhi Kendras across the country as part of its endeavour to make medicines available at affordable prices.
Nearly 211 crore people, about 45% of the global population, were reported as obese or overweight. About half of these people were found in just eight countries: China (40.2 crore), India (18 crore), the USA (17.2 crore), Brazil (8.8 crore), Russia (7.1 crore), Mexico (5.8 crore), Indonesia (5.2 crore), and Egypt (4.1 crore). By 2050, India may even overtake China in absolute numbers in certain categories.
